It’s just not cricket
/ 15 July 2020

It’s just not cricket

Near Makhanda in the Eastern Cape in the village of Salem is a cricket pitch that is said to be the oldest in the country. Watered by blood and trauma, rolled with frontier nostalgia and contemporary paranoia, how does it play?

EFF tackles apartheid legislation
/ 19 February 2020

EFF tackles apartheid legislation

While the ANC in Parliament found itself defending the presence of FW de Klerk at the State of the Nation address last week, the government was also — in court this time — defending an apartheid-era law

Land reform is about more than just land
/ 13 January 2020

Land reform is about more than just land

On paper, the Bino family of Kowa (formerly Elliot), Eastern Cape, are a land reform success story. In 2000, they applied with their relatives to pool their government subsidies and buy the 500-hectare Killcholoumkill farm, which the government had bought from a white commercial farmer for the purposes of land reform.  Over the past 20 […]

Blood for land, says Malema
/ 16 October 2012

Blood for land, says Malema

Expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema believes bloodshed will help him get South Africa’s land and mineral resources, according to a report.