The massacre graphically revealed that a black majority-constitutional democratic state, like its racist white military-police state predecessor, is an organised system of oppression at the core of which, is an armed apparatus for violent repression, that guard and defend the profits, and private property of the capitalist class.
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As morning broke on Friday – Thabo Ledwaba burst into a haunting rendition of the struggle song Shona malanga at the site where his brother…
The Sekhukhune Royal Council deserves to be one of the richest with more development communities because of the mineral wealth of this area. We are confident that time is not completely lost and therefore, new trends can still ensue. Here, we are speaking about new trends that will put our people at the centre of development, whilst at the same time, positioning the Sekhukhune Royal Council to its rightful place.
JK saw very little of him and his most vivid memories of his father date from 1936 when he was nine years old. Many mine workers were afflicted by a fatal dust-induced lung disease – silicosis or miners’ phthisis. Those who developed the illness were often sent home so that the mines did not have to pay the costs of treatment or provide compensation. Mahudu was diagnosed with the disease in 1936 and sent home.
“Photography has always been the great love of my father’s life. He went about his business with great stubbornness and determination. And no one could dissuade him from taking his pictures, for he always had some kind of trick that he used to disguise himself in places where his camera was forbidden.
Magubane and other brave newsmen and women hit the streets with their cameras and notepads, defying strict government restrictions to expose the brutality of the state, capture the bravery of the youth, the fear, agony and grief of the parents.
Asbestos roofing was erected over millions of township houses across South Africa under the Apartheid government, despite expert findings that the material could cause deadly lung cancers.
IN August 2019 as I was doing research for my book A Desire to Return to The Ruins – I learnt of the passing of…
"...what makes me sleep at night is things like having an old man who was once an askari, come watch the play and say to me after watching the show, he is free to die in peace." - Sello Maseko
A housing development project was meant to bring change to a rural Limpopo community has become the source of many troubles writes Benson Ntlemo The…