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Dry taps, quiet crisis – how state inaction normalised rural water poverty

Billions have been spent on water projects, but due to corruption and mismanagement, many of these were never completed. Broken water pipes at what used to be construction sites for these projects stand as poignant monuments to this rot.

Remembering John Maroo – a freedom fighter who defied jail and banishment and paid with his life

In the aftermath of Maseru, a massacre that claimed 42 lives (including two children), Maroo’s “blood-stained suit was vivid in telling his near-death story that he neither had a chance or a heart to tell”, noted Lebo, who went to exile with her father in 1978, never to meet again. To mitigate, ANC’s top brass redeployed its operatives to Lusaka.

Failure to restore amaHlubi king’s status a continuation of criminal British legacy

The current king of amaHlubi Inkosi Langalibalele II continues to be treated as a mere inkosi who is a junior to other kings despite having about 30 senior amakhosi under him.  The important question to ask during this time as we mark the 30th anniversary of our democracy as a new country following the 1994 breakthrough is the following: what is the state of the Kingdom of amaHlubi and its nation?