Tiisetso Makube

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Entitlement conspires with Public Works

Analysis Tiisetso Makube - 5 Jun 2014

The jobs programme further demeans those who won't contribute but take state largesse for granted.

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Dispatches: Snapshots of a life that was

Article Tiisetso Makube - 26 Apr 2013

Once a popular photographer, Phuzi, the old man from Tsakane blames his hardships on a strange illness.

Oscar Pistorius charged with Reeva Steenkamp murder

Article Tiisetso Makube - 14 Feb 2013

South Africa's Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius has been charged with murdering his girlfriend at his home in Pretoria.

Last trumpet sounds for a musical phenomenon

Article Tiisetso Makube - 8 Feb 2013

Obituary: Victor Ntoni (1947 – 2013)

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Fish tales and faded hope on the famished road to Mangaung

Article Tiisetso Makube - 30 Nov 2012

Tiisetso Makube takes a ride to find some answers about the succession race but instead finds more questions about the troubled state of the nation.

A life lived vividly, loudly

Article Tiisetso Makube - 26 Oct 2012

Tiisetso Makube pays tribute to legendary Soweto photographer Alf Kumalo.

Dispatches: Reading the Reporter

Article Tiisetso Makube - 12 Oct 2012

In KwaThema on Gauteng's East Rand, news and memories merge at Sis Poppy's speakeasy.

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In the township, an electricity gap can always be plugged

Article Tiisetso Makube - 27 Jul 2012

Cable theft is so rife in the townships that ordinary people have found "clever" ways of connecting to power illegally, writes Tiisetso Makube.

What is the Southern Africa Trust?

Article Tiisetso Makube - 19 Mar 2007

Uniqueness is a quality many strive to achieve in order to set and maintain a position among competitors. But for the Southern Africa Trust, a Southern Africa-based organisation, it is not about being unique so as to compete; rather it is being unique in approach and complementing existing efforts in the quest to overcome poverty in Southern Africa.

Press Releases

Special Reports

Adventures, ghost tours and big skies await visitors to the Cape Winelands

special reports - 23 Sep 2020

All of the CWDM destinations are accessible within a 30- to 120-minute drive from Cape Town, creating real value for money

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SingularityU Online Summit to contribute to SME growth in 2020

special reports - 23 Sep 2020

The global speakers lined up for this year's event will address the challenges and opportunities specifically facing small businesses

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Policy priorities lie with urgent economic reforms

special reports - 23 Sep 2020

Professor Raymond Parsons believes that business and consumer sentiment in South Africa would both benefit from even lower borrowing costs

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Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria to reopen on Heritage Day

special reports - 22 Sep 2020

The new, drive-through sculpture exhibition brings to four the number of exhibitions of iconic African and South African art

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Request for Quotation for Benguela Current Convention Secretariat

special reports - 19 Sep 2020

A chartered aircraft for an aerial survey and counting software for cape fur seals and seabirds in Angola, Namibia and South Africa is required

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Fifteen additional speakers for SingularityU SA Online Summit 2020

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

SingularityU hosts global line-up with an extra 15 speakers to address thought-provoking topics to help solve the world's grand challenges

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Recycling water and waste management

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

One solution to South Africa's water shortage is to install infrastructure that will save rainwater from run-off into the stormwater system

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Covid-19 and CVD: The heart in the time of crisis

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

The pandemic has been a time of great humility for health workers and tactics have had to be changed if they weren’t working