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The Firm: International Thief Thief
Some people don’t even need to kill a mosquito to keep you at the bottom: dispossessed, landless and destitute. And while many view monarchs as weak and largely symbolic entities,...
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Siyabonga Hadebe
Writing and conversation concerning Black lives.
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Stories by Siyabonga Hadebe
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South Africa – An Imagined Country
Each day that passes indicates that South Africa has a fragile political system that lacks ‘shock absorbers’ to contain and withstand problems that face its society. The creation of the ‘new’ South Africa was understood...
Culture
The Drunken Republic
Culture
New Liberal Party To Replace ANC?
This opinion piece argues that the time is almost ripe for a liberal party in South Africa, and Herman Mashaba is one of the players who thinks that he is the one to lead the proje...
Culture
The Economics of Language: Black Languages Reduced to Dialects
Despite the fact that indigenous languages were declared official languages in the ‘new’ South Africa, they have so far failed to match the growth of Afrikaans usage since 1948. With the ‘Rainbow Nation’ idea suppressing...
Culture
Mfecane Never Happened
Culture
The Untold Story of Amabhaca
"The last king of the AmaBhaca people was Inkosi Madzikane ka Zulu. He died in the 19th century in what is now Mount Frere, next to the Drakensberg mountain range. The name "amabha...
Culture
Kukude Emakhaya – Broken Souls in Mandela’s Experiment
Unfortunately, there are way too many Makhayas in our midst – broken souls that were created in the early days after the ‘demise’ of apartheid. Many of us are Nelson Mandela’s sacrificial lambs, who are barbecued daily i...
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