“Sometimes we are faced with droughts and other times we have floods,” says Anita António Candeeiro, leader of a women’s group of smallholder farmers in…
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Silicosis trust pays out 100 miners but many more still waiting
The Tshiamiso Trust recently announced that it had paid out more than R9million to 100 ex gold miners as part of the historic class action…
Cameroon’s bushmeat trade gets COVID-19 blues
Bushmeat is a popular delicacy in most of Cameroon but the outbreak of covid-19 has caused problems for both hunters and consumers writes Solomon Tembang…
Samora Machel – a life cut short
When Samora's eldest brother died in the mines, the mining company sent forty pounds as compensation. Other relatives came home without limbs, blind, or deathly sick from tuberculosis or pleurisy—for which they rarely received even token compensation
Final curtain call for doyen of theatre of resistance
Although Maishe Maponya’s global outlook transcended ideological confines, he always advanced a Black Consciousness perspective. National Writers Association of South Africa general secretary Dr Lebogang…
Tale of sacred instrument mbila set for big screen
WHEN he was still a young man 60 years ago JK Mathoho spent R2, considered a small fortune during those time to buy himself the…
Solar energy to the rescue for rural residents
Katlego Sekwati Before installing an on-grid solar system in their Limpopo home pensioner couple Dinah Sefoloshe, 76 and Jacks Sefoloshe, 78, spent a great part…
Youths dump city lights for life of farming
“Every parent’s dream is to see his or her child to be successful,” but who says that this cannot happen in agriculture? This is the…
Ramaphosa reacts like cowering lamb in attacks on state
212 deaths is too great a number to simply expect the nation to accept government’s terse explanation it wasn’t ready writes Lucas Ledwaba IN the…
KZN – ‘where those who run crazy are the only sane ones’
In KwaShange and in other areas affected by political violence in the Natal Midlands, the vast majority of young men who were born during the political violence are between 23 and 26 years of age at the time of writing. There is also a sizeable group of those who were ‘heroes’ in the Vulindlela conflict. For these young men, trauma is not 'post', but rather 'current', and part of their everyday life









