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Tiisetso Makube

Buckets, pits and poverty: How the other half defecates

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Life with pit latrines and the bucket system was meant to be a hallmark of the most rural of existences. But Tiisetso Makube found it in his backyard.

Gordimer: Allergic to nonsense, and tired of idiotic questions

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Nadine Gordimer's death was a sucker punch for writer and poet Tiisetso Makube.

Nat Nakasa: Writing to the beat of a different drum

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As Nat Nakasa's exiled remains head for South Africa's shores, Tiisetso Makube ponders the journalist's literary contribution.

Entitlement conspires with Public Works

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

Dispatches: Snapshots of a life that was

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

Oscar Pistorius charged with Reeva Steenkamp murder

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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

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Obituary: Victor Ntoni (1947 – 2013)

Fish tales and faded hope on the famished road to Mangaung

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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

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Tiisetso Makube pays tribute to legendary Soweto photographer Alf Kumalo.

Dispatches: Reading the Reporter

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

A house, a home and hope that refuses to die

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Yes, it is true what they say about South Africa and Johannesburg in particular: it is home to all of Africa.

In the township, an electricity gap can always be plugged

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