Our leaders are operating in a country shaped by inequality, institutional fragility, and complex social realities
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When politicians sip on cold bottled water while delivering Freedom Day speeches, elsewhere, women will be risking their lives collecting water from crocodile infested dams and rivers
Some argue that the SACP has failed to make significant contributions to the elections
When people lose money from their mobile accounts without fully understanding why, it affects more than their balance
On 21 March 1960, people gathered at the police station in Sharpeville without their passbooks, deliberately challenging the system. They were not armed. They were not violent. They were asserting their dignity.
Adwa is a phenomenon and a light. History was made. A clear message was carved once again: Black people could defeat colonisers if they stood as one.
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.
The widespread destruction of roads and bridges in the recent floods in Limpopo and Mpumalanga is not an accident but the result of years of…
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.
The SA National Parks recently hosted the annual Mapungubwe Lecture series at the Mapungubwe National Park in Limpopo. Celebrated artist and cultural activist Azah Mphago…