5+ hour, 18+ min ago  (1317+ words) One of the most fundamental parts of literature is the ability to dismantle barriers and connect people. Through reading, you're able to put yourself in other people's shoes and empathise with events and circumstances outside yourself." With the state of…...

4+ hour, 54+ min ago  (1036+ words) What we are living through is a dignity deficit. Unlike economic deficits, it does not appear in numbers. It appears in people. And as South Africa marks Human Rights Day, thirty years after human dignity was written into law, this…...

13+ hour, 14+ min ago  (437+ words) On 21 March 1960, in the township of Sharpeville, police opened fire on an unarmed crowd of people protesting the apartheid pass laws. 69 people" were killed " but reports suggest that the actual death toll was higher. Many more were injured. Protesters shot…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago  (845+ words) In a series of explosive claims, Mkhwanazi alleged that senior political and police officials interfered with investigations and may have links to organised crime networks." Among those implicated was Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, who has denied the accusations. The allegations…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (448+ words) My father was born in the 1960s, in a period marked by intensified repression in occupied Azania. His birth came just three years after the banning of liberation movements and two years before the emergence of the Black Consciousness Movement " a…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1594+ words) The sulphuric stench that drifted over large parts of Johannesburg last week " described by residents as reeking of "rotten eggs, "cat urine and "burning sulphur " has dissipated. But the questions it has raised about the region's air quality and the…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (572+ words) A new generation of black property professionals officially stepped into the industry on Saturday as part of Services SETA's ambitious drive to transform the real estate market in South Africa. A total of 537 young people graduated as certified real estate…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (253+ words) It's important to remember that when a child cannot read for meaning by age ten, we are not simply confronting a school problem. We are shaping the boundaries of citizenship and opportunity. We are deciding, often without admitting it, who…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (369+ words) Question 1. Your article, The Diaspora Dividend, appeared in the Mail & Guardian in January. It's subtitled "Zimbabwe's Unofficial State of Survival'. What motivated you to write this article?" Question 2. You suggest that migration from Zimbabwe has evolved into a parallel system…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1061+ words) Ponte City's grand opening was in 1975. Standing at 54 storeys and 173m, she was the tallest building in Africa for 48 years straight. She was beaten by a skyscraper in Egypt, measuring a mere 5m taller. Her fall from grace to grimy led her…...