The Chemical Industries Education and Training Authority (CHIETA) is playing its part in fighting the vast challenges faced by women daily in the chemical sector…
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Marikana – ‘You can’t unsee what you saw’
Photojournalist Leon Sadiki covered the Marikana strike and took the picture of ‘The Man in the Green Blanket’ which has come to symbolise the protest…
AU declares Zambian election peaceful and transparent but…
Lucas Ledwaba The African Union’s Election Observer Mission (AUEOM) has declared that election day operations in Zambia “were conducted in a peaceful, transparent and professional…
‘Marikana left a massive scar in my life’
Photojournalist Felix Dlangamandla was in the line of fire as police shot and killed 34 mineworkers at Marikana on 16 August 2012. In this in-depth…
Women leading Mozambique’s community seed banks
“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…
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…









