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Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s son, was arrested for attempted murder on Thursday after a shooting at his Hyde Park residence

New Eastern Cape massacre sparks urgent calls for action on gun violence

The latest mass shooting, which left six people dead in Qumbu, follows the killing of 18 people in the province last month This content is restricted to registered users and…

Louis Pepping is accused of raping a six-year from Ngobozana village in Lusikisiki. Photo supplied

Former education employee accused of raping child laughs as witnesses testify in court

Louis Pepping’s trial was moved from Lusikisiki to the Mthata high court because of fears that angry residents would attack the courthouse.

Xolani Nzuza speaks to injured and arrested miners at the ‘Koppie,’ Marikana, July 2021.

No justice left behind after the Marikana massacre

Close to a decade after the Marikana massacre, President Cyril Ramaphosa has not visited the survivors as he promised to do, judges have acquitted police officers, children can’t…

Nozamile Yaphi’s husband returned home from the mines suffering from TB. They started a suvvessful commercvial farming enterprise which eventually collapsed after he died. She now helps out at a local creche while trying to get compensation for her husband’s occupational disease. (Lucas Ledwaba/Mukurukuru Media)

The gold miners’ widows tell of daily battles for survival

Families will never forget how iphika took their fathers, brothers, husbands and breadwinners after they spent the best years of their lives digging up gold in the mines

Former police minister Bheki Cele. (Paul Botes)

Drugs and alcohol abuse rage in crime stats

Substance abuse has emerged as a reason for the spike in crimes during the first quarter of 2021.

Lenathi, Thimna and Nikita in one of two beds shared by the six children living in the older Mayixhale house. (Paul Botes/M&G)

‘Politicians take our votes and then they do nothing’

The M&G returns to the Mayixhale household, in the Eastern Cape, for the fourth time since the 2004 elections

Comment: Clinic victory – A shot in the arm for people’s rights

If the community stays vigilant, lives will be improved for many years.

Ex-miners who yearn to breathe easier

In a bumpy backstreet in Mthatha stands the offices of the ex-mineworkers’ union, founded in 1987. There are seven stacks of dusty files in one corner, each the height of an…

Thousands throng Sigcau funeral

Thousands of people attended the funeral service of late public works minister Stella Sigcau at her birthplace of Lusikisiki on Tuesday. Those attending the ceremony ahead of her…

Bonani Mayixhale, who lives near Lusikisiki, sums up the problem: “We would like any toilet, but without a plumbing system and running waler the best we can have is the govern­ment one.” (Paul Botes/M&G)

‘I pray to God to take away this poverty’

The Eastern Cape has some of the poorest districts in the country, according to Statistics South Africa

‘Transkei won’t be 10th province’

<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday rejected calls for the Transkei to become South Africa’s 10th…

Traditional leaders the ‘moral and social custodians’ of Africa

Government sees a crucial role for traditional leaders, so it is vital they remain focused, united, and set an example to their subjects and the whole country, Deputy President…

Traditional leaders should set example, says Zuma

Government sees a crucial role for traditional leaders, so it is vital they remain focused, united, and set an example to their subjects and the whole country, Deputy President…