PODCAST: Beware the small screen
According to the Global Digital Yearbook of 2019, South Africans spent an average of eight hours a...
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Musical masters fuse Western and traditional music
Michelle Galloway A South African composer, Michael Blake and Ugandan composer Justinian Tamusuza,...
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The fight for land is a fight for cattle
Melathisi Mthembu In E.W.M. Mesatywa’s book titled Izaci namaqhalo esiXhosa (Xhosa idioms and...
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The 1970s: A decade of saying enough was enough
Jarome Klaaste Journalist Aggrey Klaaste was imprisoned 42 years ago during a police crackdown on...
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Tracking Saul ‘Mayimayi’ Msane’s roots
A hometown hero who was once labelled enemy of the people
I was 19 in first year undergraduate school at the University of the Free State (UFS) in 2008, a year after Jacob Zuma rose to power at the Polokwane conference, amidst much controversy. Mosiuoa Lekota was one of those who went off to form and launch a break away opposition party Congress of the People (COPE). All roads led to UFS’s South Campus to hear Zuma’s condemnation of the breakaway party at an ANC-led meeting.
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