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Protests against tributes to colonialists have spread from Cape Town and Grahamstown now to Durban. On Thursday morning, students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College campus, woke up to find that a statue of King George V had…

A photograph safely stashed in her wallet is as close as she gets to her children for most of the year. NOKWANDA MNCWANGO* (46) has been living without her two daughters and son since 2007, and says their mother-child relationship is…

Cubans in the west of Havana can now access international news and social networks using the nation’s first ever free, unrestrictive WiFi hub, created by Cuban artist Kcho. Internet penetration in the communist nation is estimated to…

// Post by Kuhle Gush Mzamane. Rhodes students have taken their #RhodesSoWhite revolution from placards to a video. A video doing the rounds on Thursday showed wannabe MCs facing off in a Yo-Mamma-style battle but with a…

Tensions are still running high at the Thokoza Hostel in the Durban CBD this week after a court ruling permitting the children to live together with their mothers at the hostel. The presence of the children, whose mothers make up a tiny…

A dissatisfied postal services customer has discovered piles of undelivered mail at the South African Post Office's Johannesburg mail hub. Leonard Werner had been waiting for more than two months for a parcel to be delivered when he turned…

The Baumann House Early Childhood Development Centre in Durban caters for blind and partially-sighted preschool children. SANDISIWE HLENGWA, a teacher and coordinator at the school, spoke to Zimasa Matiwane about her work as a…

South African photographer Anthony Bila is once again celebrating history with “Black History March”, this time with a focus on Soweto in the ’50s, an era characterised by distinctive fashion, soulful jazz, red brick, four-roomed…

Despite stiff opposition to the idea, the city of eThekwini has gone ahead with its bid to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games. The only other contender, the city of Edmonton in Canada, withdrew, citing financial constraints. The city remains…

HIV can have a devastating effect on people and their families, particularly if they are poor and unemployed. Without treatment you may be too ill to work, but without money you might not get the treatment you need. MBALI JILI* (25) told…

When Julius Malema was a young lion and ANC Youth League president, he was prone to making controversial statements. (What’s changed?) Back in 2010, when Malema said DA leader Helen Zille was “a cockroach and must be voted out of…

A shocking video of Chelsea fans preventing a black man from boarding a train in Paris on Tuesday has once again raised questions about racism in football. The footage shows the passenger being repeatedly pushed back while trying to…

More than a quarter (26.3% to be exact) of South Africans living in extreme poverty are in KwaZulu-Natal, according to a report by Statistics South Africa – even though the province accounts for only 19.8% of the country’s population.…

An Indian woman who was groped during an IndiGo flight refused to take the harassment. Instead she gave the man a public tongue lashing, and whipped out her phone to record his response. The video was later uploaded to YouTube and viewed by…

Following a call by teachers unions the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) and the National Professional Teachers Organisation of South Africa (Naptosa) for government to scrap or review the progression policy, ZIMASA MATIWANE…

Furthering your education can be an intimidating journey filled with the anxiety of financial burdens. While the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) provides loans and bursaries, not every prospective student qualifies, and not…

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) was designed to provide financial aid to needy students for tuition and accommodation. But NONDUMISHO KHOSA* found out the hard way that NSFAS can sometimes leave students in the lurch. She…

Students around the country have been experiencing frustrations with access to financial aid; some have resorted to protests as a way to highlight their situation. ZIMASA MATIWANE, a self-funding student who had missed out on classes due to…

Fatima Hassan watched her cousin’s shop being looted in Slovoville, Soweto, on Thursday. Hassan said she was asked to travel to Soweto and assist shopkeepers and her cousin with moving the stock out of his shop amid the looting.…

As schools open on Wednesday in the coastal provinces, The Daily Vox visited the important people who lay the foundation for education – grade 1 teachers. They shared the joys and challenges of teaching the little ones with ZIMASA…