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Complex choice: A Black Sash member outside the constitutional court during the social grants hearing. Even though the tender for the payment of social grants was awarded irregularly, annulling it would be the greater social ill for poor people. Photo: Alon Skuy/Sunday Times/Getty Images
AZANIAN PEOPLE S ORGANISATION

For the law to rule, it must be applied

Mere forgiving and forgetting based on a lack of political will, incompetence, laziness, corrupt motives or even universal love, is not on

  • Johann van der Westhuizen
8 min read
SOUTH AFRICA: AZAPO 9th Congress in the 1990s. (Photo by Gallo Images/City Press)
ABU BAKER ASVAT

Azapo’s political relevance re-emerges

The party of socialist Black Consciousness has fresh leaders and a pact with the Pan Africanist Congress to begin working at the local level to create a viable and radical Left

  • Imraan Buccus
7 min read
uNobantu noMajola, in which protagonist Nomalizo Khwezi assumes the form of literary character Thembeka kaKhalipha, as depicted in a Lovedale Press classic, AC Jordan’s 1940 novel Ingqumbo yemiNyanya (Athi-Patra Ruga)
ART

Athi-Patra Ruga’s new exhibition: The stain at the end of rainbow

Athi-Patra Ruga’s latest exhibition, ‘Interior/Exterior/ Dramatis Personae’, takes his characters on transformative journeys

  • Kwanele Sosibo
10 min read
AZANIAN PEOPLE S ORGANISATION

Letters to the editor: January 16 to 22 2015

Readers write in about honouring veterans, an empowerment grant, and ubuntu.

  • Letters
3 min read
AZANIAN PEOPLE S ORGANISATION

Democracy has also brought us great inequality

The Nkandla scandal and the Marikana massacre are the lowest points of South Africa’s democracy yet.

  • Mosibudi Mangena Author
5 min read
SABC acting COO
AZANIAN PEOPLE S ORGANISATION

SABC’s 24-hour news channel launch ‘premature’

Azapo has added its voice to the critics that don’t believe the SABC’s 24-news channel was a good move by the public broadcaster.

  • Sapa
4 min read
ASSOCIATION OF MINEWORKERS AND CONSTRUCTION UNION

Amcu rally has analysts guessing

The presence of several left-leaning parties could signal a growing challenge to Cosatu and the ANC

  • Kwanele Sosibo
5 min read
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Opposition slams release of Schabir Shaik

Opposition parties on Tuesday slammed the release of convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik on medical parole.

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
2009 ELECTIONS

Azapo blasts SABC for biased reporting

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is biased, the Azanian People’s Organisation (Azapo) said on Monday.

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
2009 ELECTIONS

SA political parties jockey for position

Political parties jockeyed for position this weekend with Azapo launching its manifesto and the ANC and DA setting out their plans for the country.

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
AMICHAND RAJBANSI

Free and fair elections for SA?

South African political parties have spoken out against political intolerance and violence ahead of next year’s general elections.

  • Miranda Andrew
2 min read
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Azapo blames ANC for Limpopo voter chaos

The African National Congress was to blame for the torching of an IEC office, the Azanian People’s Organisation said on Sunday.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read