In this respect, women bear the brunt of these arrests as they still play a central role in running their domestic affairs. Spending prolonged periods in detention means they leave behind families and children without anyone to look after them. In most cases, women artisanal miners are family heads and bread winners.
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Legendary sportswriter David Legge once wrote after a rather uninspiring PSL match between Wits University and Umtata Bucks that the game produced lots of perspiration…
Scores of people turned out for the 17th annual Marula Festival in Phalaborwa. The two-week event which celebrates the marula fruit season includes a marathon,…
Limpopo experiencing widespread distribution of illegal gambling machines usually found at foreign-owned local spaza shops in rural
areas across the province.
THE hills around the village of Masealama in the Polokwane Local Municipality reverberated to the excited chatter and laughter of players and fans during the…
In another time the hills around Mafefe resonated with the crashing sound of chisel and hammer as hundreds of men and women mined asbestos. Extraction…
Land reform beneficiary Frank Makgopela Monaheng farms bonsmara cattle and sunflower. He has built up the farm into a thriving commercial enterprise by reinvesting his profits into the business, using the funds to buy machinery to improve production.
Malombo music pioneer and master guitarist and composer Philip Tabane would have turned 83 years old today. LUCAS LEDWABA pays tribute to the fallen genius who was born on 24 March 1940