After marching to Cosatu House to hand over their memorandum, students were visited by former Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi.
Watch: former student leader Dlamini says every time Mantashe opens his mouth, he spews bile."
African Union chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma may benefit from the ruling party’s move to avoid a leadership showdown.
M&G’s Lisa Steyn takes a look at the "good news” the finance minister has for the investors when he meets with them in two weeks time.
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/ 21 September 2016
Watch the confrontation as police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets at students. Some students were later arrested for throwing stones.
Watch students take matters into their own hands as they clash with security for denying them access to Solomon Mahlangu House.
Wits students disrupted classes and blocked entrances to the institution after the announcement of an 8% cap on fee increases for 2017.
Thousands of tonnes of chrome have been mined on the Sekhukhune belt, with many of the companies having no permits to mine in the area.
Residents live in fear as they find themselves in the middle of a power struggle between three waring royal families.
Zuma’s close family friend has been awarded a tender, while debate still rages about the nuclear deal programme.
Mail & Guardian reporter Govan Whittles takes a satirical look at what’s making headlines.
M&G’s business editor Kevin Davie follows the Israelites’ journey through Sinai in search of remnants of their culture and ancient history.
When Ebola hit an overcrowded slum in Freetown people feared the worst. But a gang of unlikely heroes emerged to help the community.
After a search for trapped miners was called off, volunteers insisted on returning underground to look for them and recovered two bodies.
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/ 9 September 2016
After a six-year-long court bid to clear himself of any blame in the Aurora mine saga, Khulubuse Zuma pleads poverty. M&G’s Govan Whittles explains.
The community of Grootvlei is not optimistic about Khulubuse Zuma’s R23-million payout. Years of accumulated debt and poverty cannot be undone.
JZ knows he can’t get away with a massacre anymore so he decides to bring out his secret weapon.
Ebola tore into the fabric of family life, and the relationships that bind them. These are two similar stories, with very different endings.
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/ 7 September 2016
Mail & Guardian reporter Govan Whittles takes a satirical look at the #OccupyLuthuliHouse protest.
Traders speak openly about the illegal trade in rough diamonds through border towns of Gbitti, Kentzou and Garoua-Boulai in eastern Cameroon.
After almost two years, the nation comes together to watch the national football team play its first match on home turf.
The brother of missing activist Itai Dzamara, says Zimbabwe has reached a watershed moment and the time for change has come.
The surreal #SarsWars would not not look out of place on your PlayStation at all.
Finance minister Pravin Gordhan operates on a two week cycle as he prepares to be ousted at any stage.
M&G staff unpack how hair is merely a gateway to the many ways in which black girls, women and people continue to be humiliated in their own country.
Only fire and a heart of gold can vanquish the evil within the mayoral chain. Will the people of Tshwane be saved from its nefarious influence?
At the peak of the Ebola crisis, the government in Sierra Leone implemented a national lockdown. One man used this time to upskill himself.
The president’s camp takes control over lucrative deal and takes aim at those in the way.
For six months Bankolay Turay and his sweetheart could only communicate via phone and text as the the Ebola crisis swept across West Africa.
The British athlete said the decision to overturn rules on testosterone suppression meant that other athletes did not stand a chance against Semenya.
Friday’s Milisuthando Bongela and Kwanele Sosibo speak to the author about language, quotas and processes.
The DA’s planning pays off, Julius Malema appears more mature and the ANC blusters about making Johannesburg ungovernable.