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    UWC to develop the first dictionary of Kaaps

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    Kaaps is a biryani pot mixture of languages that has always had negative connotations to it. The University of the Western Cape (UWC) has...

    Traditional Khoi-San Leadership Act Underpinned By Idea That Rural People Cannot...

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    by Richard Raber, PhD Student, African History, Indiana University Bloomington Last week South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Traditional Khoi-San Leadership Act. Some have...

    Claim That Zama Zamas Pose Threat To JHB Is “Xenophobic” –...

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    The City of Johannesburg is on the brink of impending doom. Well, that is according to a Sunday Times report from November 25. Quoting...

    City of Cape Town redesigning Imizamo Yethu but residents know nothing...

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    The City of Cape Town has begun redesigning parts of Imizamo Yethu, the informal settlement in Hout Bay that was devastated by fire at...

    Marikana settlement residents begin rebuilding

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    After a fire ripped through 49 households in the Marikana informal settlement in Cato Crest, the community is beginning to rebuild.  Read more: Marikana settlement...

    They destroyed his home. Then his case was thrown out of...

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    On November 27 the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (Seri) filed heads of argument in an application for leave to appeal the Durban...

    5 Things You Never Knew About Black Revolutionary Robert Sobukwe

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    Forty years ago on this day, February 27, Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe passed away. Sobukwe was a prominent South African political dissident who founded the...

    The Dagga Party: How Cannabis Can Unlock The Economy To The...

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    Unlocking the legislation criminalising cannabis in South Africa can completely transform the economy, according to The Dagga Party of South Africa also known as...

    ESCR: SA Must Fulfil Its Human Rights Obligations For All South...

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    On Saturday the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) co-hosted a solidarity meeting with Abahlali baseMjondolo in partnership with Socio-Economic Rights...

    Marievale community back in court to stop the army’s unlawful evictions

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    Marievale residents will be back in court later this week after the High Court heard and heard an application to interdict evictions from a...

    Joburg High Court grants interdict preventing SANDF from evicting Marievale residents

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    Residents from the Marievale community were granted an urgent interim interdict to prevent the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) from evicting them from...

    Joburg’s nationalistic attitude rears its head in Fattis Mansions, Cape York...

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    The divergent realities of people evicted from Fattis Mansions last week, and the victims of the Cape York fire, have highlighted Johannesburg’s nationalistic attitudes...

    The Land Question part 1: What is land reform?

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    Julius Malema, Commander-in-Chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), frequently gets into trouble for inflammatory statements encouraging supporters to occupy white-owned land. His comments...

    Durban food riots turn the wheel of history

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    South Africa’s social crisis has erupted as the people Cyril Ramaphosa and Jacob Zuma deem expendable, those who bear the brunt of the past...

    The other water crisis: Eastern Cape is in serious danger

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    The Cape water crisis has shaken South Africa. The reality that easy access to clean running water will soon be stripped from one of...

    Ari Sitas: “June 1976 was a point of no return”

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    ARI SITAS, sociology professor at UCT, reflects on the events of June 1976 and what it meant to be a young person then. I was...

    These inhospitable living conditions are the reason the #HoutbayProtests erupted

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    At least one person died after being caught in a hail of rubber bullets and tear gas when protests broke out in Imizamo Yethu,...

    Durban: Fresh Land Grabs In Cato Crest

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    Different areas in Durban have been sparked by land grabs over the last two weeks, with the most recent one being in Cato Crest,...

    Five Quotes From Nelson Mandela On Land

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    The dispossession of the black inhabitants of their land was an apartheid era strategy that began with the colonisation of South Africa. Without land,...

    The Last Moments Of The Student Shot At DUT

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    UPDATE: Hospital manager at City Hospital Rafeek Nakooda said the DUT student was rushed to hospital with his friends. As far as they know,...