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CLIMATE CHANGE

Democracy should feed land hunger

It is shocking that a post-1994 dispensation, emerging from a colonial-apartheid liberation struggle whose core objective was the return of land, has presided over the increase…

  • Simion Mashego
5 min read
Fresh burials in Westbury Park Cemetery in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Thursday, June 24, 2021. With Africas most developed nation recording one of the worlds fastest pace of deaths from Covid-19 infections, large swathes of the country are being deluged with offers of burial insurance. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images
BACKLOG

What would you do if your loved one’s body was stuck in a mortuary and you couldn’t bury them?

Families have asked the Congress of Traditional Leaders and the Human Rights Commission to intervene after waiting years to bury their loved ones

  • Masoka Dube
8 min read
BUSHBUCKRIDGE

Anger as Mpumalanga chief bans home burials

People who buried relatives at home were detained at the Mathibela tribal council and ordered to pay a R20 000 fine

  • Masoka Dube
9 min read
Comrades in arms: (from left) Stanley Mathabatha, Florence Radzilani, Soviet Lekganyane, Bishop Israel Makamu and Daniel Msiza during the ANC’s Limpopo provincial conference in June 2018 in Polokwane. The party has reinstated Radzilani and Msiza, who are among the people implicated in the looting of VBS Mutual Bank. (Photo: Antonio Muchave/Gallo Images/Sowetan)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

VBS looting haunts the ANC in Limpopo

The ANC is facing a revolt over the looting of VBS bank, which took money from poor communities, with warnings of electoral consequences in 2021 local elections

  • Thanduxolo Jika
  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
7 min read