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.
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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…
The potential of land ownership to slam the brakes on the scourge of unemployment and deepening levels of poverty has been acknowledged by the National Development Plan (NDP), which envisaged agriculture as the sector that has the potential to create close to 1 million new jobs by 2030
Throughout history women have played instrumental roles in our homes, country, community, and the nation and female excellence continues to be a symbol of hope…
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?
Having died as a ‘commoner’ and prisoner what are the lessons that can be learnt from this hero, especially in the context of the anti-apartheid struggles that we in the 1950s and beyond? What kind of foundation can we justifiably attribute to a leader such as Langalibalele? How did that foundation shape the politics of later leaders such as Mabhida, Mandela, Sobukwe, Hani and many others?
The milestones that the Barokologadi Communal Property Association (CPA) achieved after having the 26 000 hectares adjacent to the world-famous Madikwe Game Reserve in the…
On 19 June 1913 the Native Land Act passed by the minority white Union of South Africa regime became law. The Act limited African land…
The Proclamation effectively abolished amaHlubi as a cultural group or people as they had, in terms of the Proclamation ceased to exist. Their cattle and other property were ‘eaten up’ by the colonial government as was the practice during that period.
The 2024 watershed election and its ramifications are upon us – and boy – there is pain, sorrow, face-saving and delight, depending on which side…