Tea production could well be the sweetener a South Africa grappling with unemployment especially in rural areas needs to revive an ailing economy. The Limpopo…
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Playing hard in rugged Waterberg
Efforts to revive domestic tourism as the sector continues to suffer effect of the covid-19 lockdown that led to millions of job losses
Bitter harvest of freedom for farm workers
Freedom remains a mirage, a pipe dream for many poor black people employed on South African farms. Many continue to work and live under deplorable…
Thulamela, why, oh why did its people leave?
The tragedy with history is that it offers so much yet still so little in answers to understanding the past. It’s a never ending process…
…a time to pluck up that which is planted
IN December subsistence farmers Kgadi and Martin Monyamane together with their assistant Simon Nkuna were working their land planting bambara groundnuts. The retired teacher couple’s…
No easy ride for learners in underdeveloped villages
Youth overcomes great challenges to ace matric as research shows rural communities bear grave development burden which negatively affects education achievement Lucas Ledwaba WHEN it…
Africans to battle over border before International Court of Justice
Somalia and Kenya are both members of the African Union and share land borders but they are fighting it out in a European court. Is…
Hope for miners left broke and broken by silicosis
Tshiamiso Trust announces plans to roll out process initiated after court settlement but Justice for Miners Campaign laments slow pace of settling claims Lucas Ledwaba…
Desire to break poverty cycle inspires rural matrics
Lucas Ledwaba ON the day the country’s matric results were released Tebatso Ledwaba and his family did not even have money to buy a newspaper…
Born frees face another long wait for return of the land
As government continues to stumble on land issue a generation born into democracy could endure lengthy wait for resolution of claims writes Lucas Ledwaba MOYAHABO…









