A rural community at odds with mining giant for over a decade finally moves in ground-breaking deal.
Posts published by “Lucas Ledwaba”
Chepape Makgato combines love of art and books in latest exhibition
Visual artist Chepape Makgato recently launched an exhibition honouring literary icon Prof E'skia Mphahlele. The exhibition is currently on at the Polokwane Art Museum in Limpopo is a collaboration with another giant of the arts, Prof Zakes Mda.
An encounter with the gentle giant of the wild
Lucas Ledwaba learns the secrets of elephants and suddenly finds himself within trampling range of one of these tuskers.
There is just no resisting the Kruger
In search of ruins, Lucas Ledwaba is bowled over by the beauty of baobabs and rugged landscape of the northern Kruger National Park.
Johnny Clegg’s life a lesson to white South Africa
Instead of creating more division in a fractured South Africa, musician Johnny Clegg built bridges and advocated for equality.
Braving falling rocks and raids for chrome
The promise of benefiting from the mineral wealth beneath the soil of their land remains a dangerous toil of dicing with death for Limpopo's zama zamas... Lucas Ledwaba documented their daily toil
The success of Peace Table Grapes
The Peace Table Grapes co-operative in Moganyaka village near Marble Hall is making its mark in a tough sector, farming table grapes which they export…
If coal is the answer, what is the question?
Ernest Ngwenya’s home of over 40 years may soon be reduced to rubble. Already it’s surrounded by rubble from the Ikwezi Mine in Kliprand, a rural settlement near Danhausser in KwaZulu-Natal.
Frustrated CPAs revolt over ‘lack of government support’
Communal Property Association (CPA) representatives fed up with what they say is lack of support from government have resolved to form an independent union to tackle issues they claim are leading to the collapse of farming projects run by land claimant communities.
Bonding with the ancestors as African New year dawns
Healer on a mission to preserve ways of traditional African religion in an when foreign influences
continue to encourage the spurning of the old ways








