Terrorism and corruption leaves Nigerians pessimistic about elections
Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission called a six-week postponement, just a week before what some have called the country’s first democratic elections were set...
“If you think NSFAS is hard to get, wait until you...
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) is reportedly seeking to recover an estimated R8-billion from beneficiaries defaulting on their student loans. Acording to...
Destroying homes and communities for MyCiti transport
Twenty-six families in Cape Town’s Wynberg and Plumstead suburbs could lose their homes as the City of Cape Town prepares to build a MyCiti...
Buffalo City College students: “We won’t move!â€
Students living in res at the Buffalo City Public FET College (BCC) in East London were served with eviction notices on Thursday. The notices...
#OpenToSyria: Displaced faces of the civil war
Four years of civil war in Syria have left more than 190,000 people dead, while millions have had to flee their homes for safety.
International...
What would you do with the Nkandla money?
On 12 February 2015, President Jacob Zuma will open Parliament with his State of the Nation Address. But there’s one thing on every South...
Reimagining Somalia: “What would I have become if it weren’t for...
In a powerful, personal photo project, Hamza Mohamed, a Somali journalist living in Qatar, asks what his homeland would have been like, had the...
Flame-filled farewell for the Proteas
As the Proteas prepare to leave for the cricket World Cup in New Zealand and Australia, South Africans showed up in their numbers at...
Teachers slam policy of promoting learners who’ve failed
Following a call by teachers unions the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) and the National Professional Teachers Organisation of South Africa (Naptosa) for...
Curro School: “The principal does not promote unity†– parent
The Curro School saga – which came to light last week when it emerged the Roodeplaat branch of the school was segregating black and...
NSFAS students left in the lurch when it comes to work-placement...
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) was designed to provide financial aid to needy students for tuition and accommodation. But NONDUMISHO KHOSA* found...
World Hijab Day: encouraging understanding, or an empty gesture?
February 1st is World Hijab Day, a day on which women who aren't Muslim or don't observe the practice of hijab (dressing modestly and...
Curro School’s race problem: “It’s just unbelievably dofâ€
The Curro Foundation School in Pretoria is separating children into classes according to their race, with management seemingly unable to grasp that playing the...
How to talk about homosexuality in isiXhosa
Many African languages are still finding the words to talk about homosexuality. The isiXhosa equivalent for gay or homosexual does not exist, so how...
Bright young things: SA’s emerging female artists
In 2014, we heard about Tokolos Stencils and their graffiti bombing against the powers that be, we heard about Brett Bailey and his human...
The principal who led his school to a 100% matric pass...
Riyaadh Najaar is the principal of Spine Road High School in Mitchell’s Plain. Last year, he saw something he had waited 39 years for -...
#GoBafana: South Africans show our boys some love
Bafana Bafana have a must-win game tonight against the Sengalese Lions of Teranga. Our readers sent their wishes of support.
It started off, as they...
#SowetoAttacks: “I could see the hate in people’s eyesâ€
Chaos broke out in Soweto this week as local youths ousted foreign traders from their shops and looted their stock. PONTSHO PILANE asked Sowetans...
“The police are supposed to stop crime, instead they tell people...
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...
We do not feel safe in SA – foreign traders
Traders affected by the looting in Soweto, south of Johannesburg, this week say xenophobic sentiment is behind the violence meted out to them.
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