WHEN he was still a young man 60 years ago JK Mathoho spent R2, considered a small fortune during those time to buy himself the…
Posts published in Jul 2021
"I used to rub his chest all night because he was coughing non-stop. Sometimes I would fall asleep while rubbing him." Nozamile Yaphi, widow of former gold mine worker Zamekile James Yaphi
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“Every parent’s dream is to see his or her child to be successful,” but who says that this cannot happen in agriculture? This is the…
212 deaths is too great a number to simply expect the nation to accept government’s terse explanation it wasn’t ready writes Lucas Ledwaba IN the…
In KwaShange and in other areas affected by political violence in the Natal Midlands, the vast majority of young men who were born during the political violence are between 23 and 26 years of age at the time of writing. There is also a sizeable group of those who were ‘heroes’ in the Vulindlela conflict. For these young men, trauma is not 'post', but rather 'current', and part of their everyday life
Community radio station Alex FM went off air this week after looters broke into its studio and made off with equipment estimated over R5-million. ISAAC…
The Limpopo Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) said despite not having experienced the incidents of looting that rocked Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal this week it…
Some townships in Gauteng including Soweto are already feeling the effects of food shortage following a spate of violent looting that saw shopping malls being looted…
In the police cells, we would spend the time polishing police boots, or washing police vans and cars. Sometimes we just sat doing nothing. But for some, it was the time to receive political education (umrabulo) from the older comrades, sing struggle songs, chant slogans and listen to poetry.