Special report from Zimbabwe: The dictator falls at last
On the evening of Sunday 19 November, every Zimbabwean with access to a television sat glued to...
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On the evening of Sunday 19 November, every Zimbabwean with access to a television sat glued to...
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Former President’s political fortunes may be revived sooner rather than later
There has been a plethora of publications on Thabo Mbeki. Many are either rabidly anti-Mbeki or unashamedly pro and so there are only a few balanced accounts of democratic South Africa’s second president. In 2016 a biography by Adekeye Adebajo was released, titled A Jacana Pocket Biography: Thabo Mbeki. It describes the leader as a “complex figure, full of contradictions and paradoxes”.
Read Moreby journalist | Nov 28, 2017 | Kau Kauru Voices | 2700
A tale of coalitions and breakdowns
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Consumers face extreme financial pressure
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#MeToo: The only life raft I have is to join the chorus of women who tell their stories
Read Moreby journalist | Nov 28, 2017 | Spotlight, Uhuru Now | 690
Defunding institutions will entrench “toxic whiteness”
Read Moreby journalist | Nov 28, 2017 | Spotlight, Uhuru Now | 335
Who is holding our educational institutions to account?
Read Moreby journalist | Nov 28, 2017 | Pioneers | 6274
The case of the Alice Times
The Alice Times and other small publications of its ilk were a collective of small publications in the Cape Colony carrying out a colonial mission hidden in social content only meant for its white readers.Alice Times is one of a collective of small, localized publications that were all situated in the Cape Colony of the time whose content appeared to be sunshine reporting only concentrating on social issues such as obituaries, funeral services and marriage announcements…
Read Moreby journalist | Nov 28, 2017 | Art | 1400
“For me songs come like a tidal wave”
When trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela cancelled his appearance at the recent Johannesburg Joy of Jazz Festival and his remaining October shows, taking time out to deal with serious health issues, fans were forced to return to his recorded opus for reminders of his unique work. Listening through that half-century of disks, the nature and scope of the trumpeter’s achievement becomes clear.
Read Moreby journalist | Nov 28, 2017 | The Craft | 1327
Corporate logics are colonising media and digital platforms.
Every day, much of humanity now holds in its hands the means to connect and be connected across the world: to family, entertainment and the broadcasts of corporations, states and, increasingly, terrorist organisations such as Islamic State. This connected world has major implications for social progress and global justice, but so too do the media and information infrastructures on which that world depends.
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For black women the internalisation of negative stereotypes can lead to additional stress which can hamper their career progession
Read Moreby journalist | Nov 28, 2017 | Kau Kauru Voices | 644
Our protectors are often the perpetrators who must be called out
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