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…
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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…
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…
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.
In this extract from his Master of the Arts dissertation Mojuta Motlhamme explores Diturupa – a commemoration of World War I and II that goes…
New skills offer a way forward for people displaced by conflict and climate change Ganava, a farmer from the Republic of Cameroon, still remembers the…
The primary concern of the public with the ANC is lack of service delivery. Lack of service delivery is rather a by-product of lack of…
The continent’s leaders gathered in the Zambian capital Lusaka to pay their respects to Dr Kenneth Kaunda who passed away last month. Kaunda was sent…
The greatest challenge facing the nation now is: what must be done to pass that experience and history, both of the suffering of millions of South Africans and the almost five and half centuries of the freedom struggle