Niren Tolsi
Niren Tolsi is a freelance journalist whose interests include social justice, citizen mobilisation and state violence, protest, the Constitution and Constitutional Court, football and Test cricket.
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/ 3 July 2008

Siya, a 15-year-old prison commodity

“All the people inside wanted to eat him like they did. I don’t know how many men [raped him], but it was messy.” A formidable, broad woman, Ma Khambule* allows her eyes to water just a little as she recounts the pain of discovering that her 15-year-old son, Siya*, was allegedly raped “many, many times” […]

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/ 6 June 2008

VIP driver crash

Ordinary citizens in KwaZulu-Natal who are growing increasingly tired of blue-light bullying on roads by politicians and other Ridiculously (self-) Important People appear to be taking matters into their own hands.

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/ 30 May 2008

Bling me up, S’bu

KwaZulu-Natal Premier S’bu Ndebele is not the tallest man in the leadership structures of the province. So this week, during the 10th African Renaissance Conference in Durban, he tried to stand on the shoulders of giants.