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This week ANC leaders showed us that they consider their ordinary members — the people who supposedly run South Africa — to be cattle.
The ANC’s new national executive and integrity committee will be able to call him to account
The ANC has set its sights back on medical aid tax credits at the #ANC54 conference. Bhekisisa reports.
The ANC international relations commission came to a unanimous agreement to approve a policy that will see the South African embassy in Israel being downgraded.
The question is: Can the disparate leadership pull together to save the party—and the country?
His aspirations to the secretary general’s office, payback for his role in derailing Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s bid for the presidency by splitting the 480 KwaZulu-Natal ANC branches, appeared to be over.
This year’s cabinet report cards are out and you don’t want to miss a single one. From President Zuma’s F to Bathabile Dlamini’s F-, find out what happened.
Special year-end edition: Restless Cities
Looking for something to do or somewhere to go this festive season? We’ve got you covered across 4 provinces.
Areas like Inanda are filled with ‘outsiders’ taking advantage of vacant land
Durban’s lone street preacher follows a calling that eschews all physical comforts
Palaeontologists have a long history of pushing the ‘pure race’ theory but finally reached the conclusion that ‘we are all one human race’.
What comes first—the commercial viability of a radio station or the needs of listener’s? KayaFM managing director Greg Maloka has grappled with this for two decades and found an answer he can live with.
Her royal highness Isabella has a problem. The father of her children—much to everyone’s dismay—is still alive. Kamaria Balkisson tells the story of the fate of the colony under the patriarch’s reign.
M&G’s pictures editor Paul Botes presents some of the most striking images from 2017
The Rex Trueform textile company employed generations of coloured people and its sale marks the end of an era that defined the area.
In Harare the fates of trees and people seem to be intertwined. Percy Zvomuya investigates the past and present of Harare through the vibrant taxi trade that surrounds a curious landmark tree.
”Women like my grandmother hold up half the sky and the heart of their homes with simple food, the spirit of celebration and an open kitchen door.”
The great end-of-year homecoming is not as simple as ‘I’m back, folks!’
More than material, the cost of going home is emotional.
Harare is still a grand dame, but one who’s fallen on hard, uncompromising times.
Maybe it’s being raised in racist enclaves. Maybe they thought the ANC was kidding about building a multiracial society. Whatever it is, white people still believe they are the rightful owners of South Africa, and no black person can convince them otherwise.
The capital of the Central African Republic could be a great holiday destination—if it weren’t for the civil war.
They left us in 2017 and now, we bid them farewell and remember their claim to fame.
See how much of the past year’s key events and personalities you can remember
