‘SA Must Downgrade Turkish Embassy Over Kurdish Offensive’
Mahmoud Patel, a professor at the University of the Western Cape and executive member and chairperson at Kurdish Human Rights Action Group South Africa...
In photos: Youth Day 2016 celebrations in Joburg
Young and old, presidents and opposition leaders - thousands went out to commemorate Youth Day on Thursday. GULSHAN KHAN captured the spirit at the...
African Medicine Has Its Place In The World
"Many doctors and pharmaceutical firms say no, but they surely can help". The herbs used by the ancient Khoikhoi people of the Kgalagadi include...
Making do with public toilets in Khayelitsha [PHOTOS]
Khayelitsha’s dirty toilets and Cape Town's "poo wars" have become almost as famous as the mountain that overlooks the touristy city. But even though...
Isipingo displaced people camp: 300 people, three tents, five toilets [photos]
After a wave of xenophobic attacks, foreign nationals working and living in Isipingo and Malukazi just outside of Durban fled their homes last week....
In pictures: Cape Town comes out in numbers for Gaza
The exact number of people in Cape Town who came out in support of Gaza on Saturday is still being disputed. Estimates put the...
#UCTShutDown in photos
After classes at the University of Cape Town (UCT) were suspended on Monday following a protest against a proposed fee hike, protesters occupying the...
Youth Day: The young achievers on the Cape Flats trying to...
June 16 is celebrated as an iconic turning point in South Africa’s history. This year marks nearly 40 years since students in Soweto were gunned...
Photo Essay: Kalk Bay’s fishermen
RA'EESA PATHER spoke to fishermen in Kalk Bay about their struggles as government enforces a new licensing programme.
The statue must fall: UCT students rise against Cecil John Rhodes
About 500 staff and students from the University of Cape Town gathered on Thursday for an open-air dialogue to discuss the fate of the...
Muizenberg Fire: How firefighters are battling the Cape peninsula blaze [photos]
In the early hours of Monday morning, mountains around the Western Cape's southern peninsula lit up in an inferno. RA'EESA PATHER was there to...
Marikana miners remember the fallen [pictures]
On Saturday, thousands of people gathered at the koppie in Marikana where, on 16 August 2012, South African police opened fire on a group...
Maputo photographer captures the city’s changing interior landscape
Maputo is a city that is ever changing, with buildings going up as quickly as others are brought down. FILIPE BRANQUINHO, a well-known Mozambican...
#RhodesMustFall: No end in sight as students sit tight
Students demanding that the University of Cape Town (UCT) set a date for the removal of a statue of Cecil John Rhodes on campus...
We’ve come a long, long way in these 22 years
The lines of this song hold special resonance on the 27th of April.
“Yinde lendlela esiyihambayo. Wash’u uMandela kubalandeli bakhe, wathi sodibana nge- Freedom...
A riot of colour at the Gauteng Carnival [PICTURES]
Thousands of South African’s participated in the eighth annual Gauteng Carnival earlier this week. People dressed in colourful clothing, danced and sang as they...
Humans of Wits University talk elections 2014
With the elections only days away, now is a critical time. With help from some friends, AAISHA DADI PATEL set out to ask Wits students whether they’re voting, and what is on their minds now that we’re nearly ready to hit the polls.
To all the superwomen, happy Mother’s Day!
Annually, a day is set out to celebrate motherhood, maternal bonds and the influence of mothers in society. While motherhood is a beautiful journey...
Photo Essay: What would you tell the government?
The ballot box is one way of communicating our feelings about the government but it's hardly a dynamic conversation. What would South Africans say to their elected officials if they were presented with the chance. FAATIMA TAYOB visited Bokaap, Woodstock, Langa and Newlands in Cape Town to find out.
The doctrine of freedom
In 1955, the ANC and its allies invited South Africans to record their demands for freedom. These demands were then expressed in a document known as the Freedom Charter. At apartheid’s end, the Freedom Charter became a cornerstone of South Africa’s new democratic constitution. Even now, as South Africans ponder the question of 20 years’ freedom, it is the Freedom Charter is that remains the yardstick of the actual freedom South Africans have secured. By RA'EESA PATHER
