In the Northern Cape, former mineworkers and their families live with lung-destroying diseases and barely survive financially.
The ANC’s renewed commitment to land expropriation may be more political posturing
‘Where homesteads once stood now roams towering machinery, earth-moving monsters that have reduced the walls of Maremane to rubble’
But others recall the brutality of his soldiers and police and the illusion of freedom
This week the Mail & Guardian is proud to publish a story that is a continuation of a specialised reporting genre, focusing exclusively on the land
Obed Bapela made the annoucnement during a report back of the ANC’s governance and legislature committee at the party’s 54th national conference
To the people of Kanana Park, he is a father who liberated them from a miserable shack existence
The new ANC president has done his supporters in Soweto proud
As Nasrec heats up, residents of nearby Soweto hope for an ANC that will do better
The group is there to demand recognition as the first indigenous people in the land which now makes up the Republic of South Africa.