The conference, for all its ambition and significance could have surely been better structured and aligned in some of its content and panels.
The first day of the third Black Portraitures conference featured a panel titled “ Our Lives as Theory: LGBTQI & African… remixed".
South Africa has made some progress in fixing its problems, but there are a number of outstanding issues that might mean we get "junk" status.
The charges relate to Phahlane allegedly contacting witnesses the Ipid had interviewed for an investigation they were conducting into his R8m home.
The company has taken measures to reduce air pollution, but people living near the Shongweni site aren’t satisfied.
The first Abantu Book Festival is a journey to black publishers and authors writing in indigenous languages.
Nothing is clear other than that the politically connected family is at the heart of the fight.
They say a recent law violates the Constitution and that it has fuelled violence against queer people.
Despite the worst violence in the Central African Republic being over, many communities are caught up in daily insecurity
A look-out post on the highway going north out of Johannesburg, and named “Shut up, Pretoria” – wouldn’t that be nice?