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She is a woman cloaked in fable and intrigue but Leila Khaled, above all, embodies a history of resistance. And to the many, many young people who first encounter her in books, she represents the enduring hope for "home" as a sanctuary…

Burundi is in the midst of a political crisis and violence is spilling out onto the streets of its capital, Bujumbura. There are fears that a civil war could break out and lead to regional unrest. MUHAMMED ISMAIL BULBULIA outlines five…

At an age where most kids are getting the hang of grammar and dropping their diapers, AJ Madumo Hlongwane is hanging headphones and dropping the bass in ways that David Guetta could only gurgle of at age two. According to the Guardian,…

Residents of the Thembelihle informal settlement and members of the Thembelihle Crisis Committee (TCC) have come under intense police pressure, following accusations that they have been harbouring illegal immigrants. Muhammed Ismail…

It’s a predicament as old as the industrial revolution: is the progress of an economy worth the toll on its environmental resources? For Mozambique, a country that finds itself trying to rebuild from the ruins of civil war, the question…

An unconfirmed number of foreign nationals are still being held at the Johannesburg Central Police Station following police raids on the Central Methodist Church and other locations across the city centre last Friday. On Tuesday Lawyers…

Wits student leader Mcebo Dlamini has accused the university’s vice chancellor Adam Habib of lying about the reasons why Dlamini was removed from office. Speaking at a student protest on campus on Monday, Dlamini said: “If I was a…

It’s not easy to upstage a newly elected leader simply due to a few misplaced words. But Allister Sparks did just that at the Democratic Alliance’s elective congress on the weekend when he labelled Hendrik Verwoed, the “architect of…

From driving licences to passport applications to reporting crime, the inefficiency of the South African civil service is certain to have plagued any citizen on at least one occasion. But what happens if you’re not South African? The…

If you haven’t already been inundated with Star Wars jokes: happy Star Wars Day, may the fourth be with you! We’re taking the opportunity to gush about the latest Star Wars trailer, which granted was released a couple of weeks ago, but…

South Africans haven’t yet gotten over President Jacob Zuma’s personal fire pool and now it’s emerged that R8-million in public funds has been used to renovate the official residence of the Free State premier Ace Magashule.…

The Nigerian Armed Forces has rescued 200 girls and 93 women from insurgent group Boko Haram in Nigeria’s Sambisa Forest. But these aren’t the girls the army was looking for. The Nigerian army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman confirmed on…

There was a diplomatic kerfuffle when higher education minister Blade Nzimande was denied a visa by the Israeli government on Thursday. But given Nzimande’s vocal criticism of the state of Israel this comes as no surprise. MUHAMMED ISMAIL…

Questions about the safety record of Johannesburg’s Metrobus service have been raised again following a a head-on collision between two buses on Jan Smuts Avenue in Saxonwold early on Friday morning. Video footage from the scene shows…

Last Thursday VUYO XEGWANA, 24, a postgrad law student at Wits University, witnessed a xenophobic attack outside her apartment in Maboneng. Muhammed Ismail Bulbulia spoke to her about the experience. I had heard that the xenophobic…

David Mahlobo, the minister of state security, has dismissed claims that an alleged “third force” was behind the violence against foreign nationals  “We have never issued a statement saying that there is a third force involved,”…

Xenophobic attacks have erupted throughout South Africa over the last few weeks. On Thursday, 16 April, a thousands-strong peace march was held in Durban calling for an end to the attacks, yet even that was marred by violence and…

The recent wave of xenophobic attacks to hit KZN, which began in Isipingo, have spread throughout Durban and surrounds, and have now reached the CBD. So far, more than 2,000 foreign nationals have been displaced and five have been killed.…