The Democratic Socialist Movement has been actively organising mineworkers disillusioned with the National Union of Mineworkers for years.
Kgalema Motlanthe has downplayed the existence of a long list of demands by Amcu at the signing of a mining agreement after the union walked out.
Neither violent protests nor politics have helped hostel residents who still live in squalor.
The calm prevailing at Dube Hostel hinges on whether the electricity problems it is experiencing can be fixed for good, according to hostel leaders.
The idea that military ethos does not influence the philosophy of maximum force is not borne out by history, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
The property market in the platinum town of Rustenburg is a gauge of the volatile area’s social tensions. Kwanele Sosibo reports.
Ever since grade three my isiZulu vocabulary has slipped further and further away from my tongue, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Former president Nelson Mandela’s influence transformed the village, which, in turn, has cast its brightest son in a biblical light.
In Nelson Mandela’s home town of Qunu, residents are hopeful Madiba will recover. In the meantime it is business as usual, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Mayenzeke Baza’s documentary explores issues of best practice in circumcision as well as wider issues of secrecy and the exclusion of women.