Ebola death toll “woefully underestimated”
Traditional burial ceremonies, a lack of health resources and misinformation among communities has spurred the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The death toll is...
Nat Nakasa: An inquisitive and tortured mind
The remains of Nat Nakasa, journalist, short-story writer and exile, were returned to South Africa on Tuesday. AAISHA DADI PATEL set out to find...
Ebola: How traditional burial rituals help spread the disease
The Daily Vox is running a series of blogs written by DR STEFAN KRUGER, who is in Sierra Leone with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to help...
The SADC Wrap: Zimbabwe hosts pricey SADC Summit, with Mugabe...
Each week award-winning journalist KRISTEN VAN SCHIE brings you all the news that’s worth knowing from across the SADC region. Here is this week’s SADC Wrap.
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Ebola: Identifying the disease in patients is part of the problem
The Daily Vox is running a series of blogs written by DR STEFAN KRUGER, who is in Sierra Leone with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to help...
Street art thrives in Mitchell’s Plain
Like many lower income communities, Mitchell’s Plain is located on the outskirts of Cape Town. Residents in the area constantly battle against drugs, gangsterism...
Jo’burg bids farewell to its lone polar bear
Yesterday Wang the polar bear passed away at the Johannesburg Zoo. AAISHA DADI PATEL met his keeper, carnivore curator Agnes Maluleke, to hear more...
Student takes Jewish day school to Human Rights Commission
Just as the controversy over King David Victory Park High School (KDVP) student Joshua Broomberg started to die down, the Times has reported that another student at...
The Marikana footage you need to see
On 16 August 2012, the South African Police Services (SAPS) opened fire on thousands of striking miners from Lonmin's platinum mines in Marikana, leaving 34 people dead.
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“What do I know about Ebola? I’m just a doctor…”
The Daily Vox is running a series of blogs written by DR STEFAN KRUGER, who is in Sierra Leone with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to help...
“Mobilise for the boycott of Israeli goods.†– Former President Thabo...
Former President Thabo Mbeki has said recalling ambassadors from South Africa and Israel would not solve the issues underpinning the Gaza conflict. Instead he...
Man walks into a roadside nail bar… No, seriously
If you’re willing to sit on a plastic chair on the side of the road, you can get a French manicure for fifty bucks....
The SADC Wrap: The US-Africa Leaders Summit edition
Each week award-winning journalist KRISTEN VAN SCHIE brings you all the news that’s worth knowing from across the SADC region. Here is this week’s SADC wrap.
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The Weekly Dissident: Khaya Maseko spreads chaos against oppressive systems
MPHUTLANE WA BOFELO in conversation with Khaya Maseko, anarchist and "chaos magickian".
I produce and proliferate knowledge. I hope that the work of producing and conducting creativity, truth...
Miners Shot Down: “This documentary is for every South African”
Social justice movement amandla.mobi has started an online petition to get the SABC and eTV to air the explosive documentary Miners Shot Down on August...
Ilan Pappé: The full interview
Israeli historian Ilan Pappé has become a pariah in his own country. Pappé is one of Israel’s New Historians – a group of scholars who have...
Five questions for Israeli historian Ilan Pappé
Israeli historian Ilan Pappé has become a pariah in his own country. Pappé is one of Israel’s New Historians – a group of scholars who have...
Hiroshima – lest we forget the horror of nuclear war
On 6 August 1945, the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb, dubbed Little Boy, on the city of Hiroshima in Japan....
Earthquake leaves South Africans shaken
On Tuesday, a 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck South Africa, killing one person and injuring others. The earthquake was the second quake to hit Orkney,...
SA architects must rethink design after quake
With seismologists warning that South Africans should expect more earthquakes in future, architects may have to begin rethinking how they design buildings.
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