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“Young People Setting An Agenda For Africa”
Last month I attended a SuperLead Summit hosted and founded by Chief Executive Officer Maanda Tshifularo and Chief Operations Officer Sihle Mbuli. The Summit was themed ‘Building h...
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Cecil John Rhodes: British Empire Hitman
“We fight Rhodes because he means so much for oppression, injustice, & moral degradation to South Africa - but if he passed away tomorrow there still remains the terrible fact that something...
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Ten years on the road.
Trouble at every turn.
Longer-lasting licences offer one bright turn as the Madlanga Commission examines alleged police corruption and Tshwane confronts a grim discovery behind a spaza-shop door.
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Loving While Black - uMbali noSipho noVusi
uVusi was from eKasi. Pantsula guy, dark in complexion, tsotsi taal but once you looked down on his pants you could tell that lendoda iqukethe istshibozi esikhulu especially because he was not a fan of underwear. Oh well...
By Nomsa Bembe
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“Xenophobia” & The Poverty of the Afrikan Majority
The incessant eruptions we see in the concentration camps have little to do with xenophobia or influx control. These eruptions are a direct result of our consistent failure (over t...
By Veli Mbele
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Sibusile Xaba Live
With a vocal style that is part dreamscaping and part ancestral invocation, Sibusile Xaba divines as opposed to plainly singing. Combined with a guitar style that is rooted in expressive picking, Xaba's music shatters th...
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REVIEW: Ekasi Lam – An Ode to Kwaito, Un-Owed to Kwaito
In 1994, the air in South African townships was different. Even through dense grey smoke from Gogo’s Magic or Welcome Dover iron coal stove, it still felt and smelt renewed. Hope w...
By Xolani Tembu
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Black Verse for Mama Sobukwe
This initiative to memorialize The Mother of Azania enlists the launch of Sleeping Giant Awakes. This is an anthology that prides itself for being a rare feat of uncurated truth and uncoerced black speech.
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The Paucity of Black Intellectuals
My study on this phenomenon revealed that a significant number of black intellectuals and potential ones left the country, either to work or study abroad, as it was challenging to do so in a...
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