Zwelinzima Vavi urged striking workers at Implats’ Rustenburg mine to return to work, but said Cosatu would help them fight for better wages.
Court case highlights a shift in workers’ allegiances to smaller, more aggressive bodies.
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/ 16 February 2012
Delegates that attended the conference leading to the formation of the DLF a year ago have expressed divergent views about its progress.
Black consciousness is mostly ignored by the media, but it doesn’t support censorship.
Andries Tatane’s death focused our eyes on Ficksburg. But months later his community appears lost at the crossroads.
An unregistered doctor with sexual abuse cases pending against him is still practising in the mental institution he worked in before his arrest.
A botched strike on two platinum mines in 2009 has made life precipitous for many.
This dancehall artist from Gugulethu is more famous overseas than he is in South Africa.
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/ 18 November 2011
Sworn affidavits by several whistleblowers allege the systematic victimisation of council employees who dared to report wrongdoing in the DA’s Midvaal
The Special Investigating Unit is also probing the DA-controlled Midvaal municipality.
Vhembe district is a rape hot spot but its budget from social development is paltry, writes <b>Kwanele Sosibo</b>.
Residents of Alexandra’s RDP houses have reacted to menacing calls for foreigners to vacate RDP houses in the township within seven days.
A sudden rise in sexual offences committed by children points to a lack of remedial resources.
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/ 30 September 2011
Is a government-sponsored initiative giving people jobs — or is it merely a complicated clean-up campaign mired in local politics?
Theophilus London has risen to fame on a combination of masterful branding and effortless musical reach, writes <b>Kwanele Sosibo</b>.
The horrific, brutal torture of a teenage girl in Limpopo, which was caught on video illustrates our society’s systemic failure.
Report by the Phillipines’ Bureau of Plant Industry says that weight for weight moringa leaves contain the calcium equivalent of four glasses of milk.
With the help of Abalimi Bezekhaya, Masikhanye Food Garden sells its produce to suburban Capetonians at a weekly market known as Harvest of Hope.
Pockets of food insecurity are plaguing areas in Southern Africa where floods or prolonged mid-season dry spells have reduced harvests.
A farm owner is offering to ensure a transfer of management skills to prospective farmers, writes <b>Kwanele Sosibo</b>.
Divisions at the local level of the ANC are among the chief factors fuelling service delivery protests.
A new book examines the dynamic of poverty in South African households.
Numsa has rubbished reports of unprecedented levels of violence during its nationwide strike, now in its second week.
President Jacob Zuma’s announcement of a "new trajectory for land reform in South Africa" is nothing new, according to trade unionists.
Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee co-ordinator Bobo Mokhoba gets a charge out of social activism.
Land sector commentators have widely criticised Julius Malema’s call for the expropriation of white-owned farm land without compensation.
Hip-hop artist Pebbles explores new sonic territory with her new album.
Since the violent death of Andries Tatane at the hands of police the town has become a hotbed of political instability, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Pebbles’s new album, <i>Phenomenal</i>, is a more sophisticated serving than her hip-hop past.
One woman is helping to transform the wasteland of Evaton West by getting people to get their hands dirty, writes <b>Kwanele Sosibo</b>.
Johnny Cradle’s self-released EP can be described as a sound indebted to Bristol but rooted somewhere else.
When the Meqheleng Library was set alight after the murder of Andries Tatane in Ficksburg, only a handful of books survived the fire.