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No comment (yet): Given Mkhari’s MSG Afrika is a majority shareholder in Rhythm FM. Disgruntled shareholders are concerned about the fate of the radio station. Photo: Gallo Images/City Press/Elizabeth Sejake

Seven years’ radio silence for taxpayer-funded Rhythm FM

Almost R50-million of taxpayers’ money has been invested but the station is yet to broadcast a single show

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Rhythm FM is R52-million of dead air

A R6-million lawsuit is offering new insight into why the state-funded station has not yet broadcast

Nsfas chairperson Sizwe Nxasana addresses the donor breakfast.

Tertiary education fund for ‘missing middle’ students

Private sector helps to address SA’s skills shortage

“I see some of the gay youth struggling with who they are and in need of mentoring. Unlike them

​Grandma knows that in this boy she has a girl — she taught me how to run a house

“She took me in after my parents separated, something which caused my mother’s mental illness which she lived with until she died in 2006.”

Calvin Pokgwadi: “This is what we are trying to address – what happens to people who are not admitted to hospital but whose illnesses could be prevented and managed if only they had been tested.”

Boy genius puts his skills to work at rolling out pathology services to the people

A science graduate believes his company can play a key role in preventative healthcare.

The Mail & Guardian looks at the daily battles faced by rural transgender people who struggle with acceptance

Getting the vocabulary right: some transgender terminology

People often use incorrect terms when making reference to the LGBTI community and especially transgender individuals. Here are a few.

Stigma against transgender individuals in small towns is a norm.

‘My body is a battleground’: How rural trans people struggle to live out their rights

The Mail & Guardian travelled to the North West and Eastern Cape to find out more about the hidden lives of trans people on the frontline.

Helping kids learn – with waste

Caregivers at ECD centres are being trained to create their own toys

Guardian and protector: Edith Chikwana tells her story to Mosibudi Ratlebjane in this week’s Slice of Life.

Orphaned at 13, she has cared for her siblings her whole adult life

Edith Chikwana now sells goods on Jo’burg’s streets to feed and educate her brothers and sister.

‘I was alone underground, I’m still alone’

‘I was alone underground, I’m still alone’

Pitsi Banana Elias recounts his near-death experience working in the mines and how it has left him isolated in more ways than one.

Gauteng cleans up acid mine water

A pricey but lasting solution to a poisonous problem that bubbled to the surface at disused shafts, has been found.

Pitsi Elias was injured when he went down the mines in 1998 and is still struggling to get what’s owed to him.

‘I was alone underground, I’m still alone’

Slice of life: The story of a miner on level 16 when he heard the blast.

The Underground Library.

Underground library to the rescue

After protests in Vuwani saw 22 schools damaged, a group of young people from a West Rand township has offered to supply books.

Women are more affected by austerity measures because they are disproportionately represented in the public sector and among informal workers. (File photo/MG)

Domestic workers labour on over injury

The domestic workers’ union is challenging an ‘unconstitutional’ delay by the labour department excluding their members from the compensation Act.

EFF manifesto: A plan for the people

The EFF local elections manifesto gives hope to those who have long lost faith in run-of-the-mill politicians.

“Behind the numbers are real feelings

Transformation ban hits SA’s World Cup Rugby dreams

Football’s racial mix quota is good, but other sports fail to drive change at player and management levels, the Eminent Persons Group has found.

Nyaope addiction tests a community’s spirit

Addicts try and try again to break the habit but, with no real prospects, they can’t win the battle.

A video of entertainer Faith Nketsi having sex went from Instagram to the world. A Bill proposes punishment for those who put images online without the person’s consent.

Faith Nketsi could have her revenge the legal way

The leak of a video featuring Queen Twerk having sex has legal ramifications. Content shared online could make one an accessory to revenge porn crime.

Programmes that integrate into society are non-existent and since migration management is reactive in outlook, migrants self-select into available social networks.

Inequality and poverty drive xenophobia

In this ‘combustible environment’ shopkeepers attack foreign shop owners, but departments too are brutal.

Tough times: Montwa Mofokeng has lived on Jo’burg’s streets for the past eight years.

No escape from streets of despair

She has been a spectator long enough to have heard how the world should be, and the reasons it is not, and the excuses of why it cannot be made so.