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Sello Hatang

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Sello Hatang

Sello Hatang is the executive director of Re Hata Mmoho

Display of courage: The Hector Pieterson Memorial. To honour those who sacrificed for freedom is to build a future where hope, justice and human dignity are protected. Photo: David Remsen

Hector Pieterson dies every day

Sello Hatang, born just before the 1976 Soweto Uprising, reflects on the profound personal and national significance of June 16. He argues that Hector Pieterson's death is not…

Author Sello Hatang with Advocate Muzi Sikhakhane

Too many questions, just enough truth: Justice as a lifelong pursuit

The thread that held the conversation together was clear from the beginning: justice. Not the abstract kind confined to courtrooms and legal textbooks but justice as a lived…

Victims of apartheid: The TRC Cases Inquiry, chaired by Judge Sisi Khampepe, will assist in bringing closure to the families of slain activists like The Cradock Four who, like Zandisile Musi and Neil Aggett, among others, never disappeared but were physically erased by the previous political order.  Photos: Foundation for Human Rights/ South African History Online

A nation still waiting to come home

Freedom is not just about liberation from oppression. It is about the work of restoration. Of dignity. Of truth. It is about ensuring that no one remains missing, not in body,…

Love must be practised, not preached

Their story begins not in comfort but in conviction. They arrived in Oukasie township during one of the most turbulent periods in our country’s history. There was no promise of…

Leadership: Bonang Mohale is many things, yet, beyond the impressive titles and achievements lies something far more important: a deep and abiding love for people. Photo: TBCSA / Thabang Radebe

You have to love your people to lead them

Too often, leadership is seduced by power. The allure of authority, prestige and influence can slowly overwhelm the original motivation to serve people. What begins as a…

Embracing it: Instead of trying to camouflage loss by seeking distractions, the writer advises that we find a way to let the process of mourning
unfold fully. Photo: Khris Kunta

Grief allowed,  grants us room to heal

There is a way we find refuge from mourning. We distract ourselves. We move cities. We change jobs. We scroll endlessly. We convince ourselves that strength means silence. But…

2 April also marks the fifth anniversary of the day that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela died. Photo: Supplied

Tale of two mothers: Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela remembered

The world tends to think of the hardened mother of the nation who always had her fist in the air, but she was so much more

Late former president Nelson Mandela. Photo: Alexander Joe/AFP

What would Madiba say to the movement today?

Our best guess is he would be in pain watching the spiralling factionalism in the ANC

(John McCann/M&G)

Partners aim to build a new society

Nelson Mandela University and the Nelson Mandela Foundation are collaborating to realise Madiba’s dream of building a new society