Shyaka Kanuma
latest news & developmentsDreaming in Durban
However strenuous our leaders’ efforts to steer our continent out of its morass of underdevelopment, poverty, disease and civil strife, their strategy is based on such shaky…
Songs of hate
Artist Mbongeni Ngema’s controversial <i>AmaNdiya</i> song about South African Indians brings to mind another song — by a Rwandan musician, Simon Bikindi. It was released just…
Africa’s youth must do for Africa
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) initiative has been described as the only plan with a realistic chance of helping Africans get to grips with, and find…
Aliens suffer at hands of police
Izegwire* has found the South African experience particularly bad.
The long wait for freedom
Foreigners seeking asylum or refugee status in South Africa face many hours in the overcrowded waiting rooms at home affairs.