Crime has been hitting the front page news during the past few months. Yet it is not an area corporations are budgeting big bucks for in their corporate social investment (CSI)…
Residents fear an imminent and severe water shortage throughout Limpopo province in the wake of recent water cuts and shortages in the Polokwane municipality. Simon Mokoatedi,…
A combination of factors including complacency, the departure of leftist stalwart and former ANC provincial chair Makhenkesi Stofile and his deputy Enoch Godongwana, and alleged…
"Men think that seeking legal protection is a woman’s thing only," says Nombulelo Mkhuma, a paralegal at Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre. A new study points out that both men…
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/291293/aidsday06.gif" align=left>Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s expected return to office after three weeks of illness has…
Relatives of the 21-year-old woman who has accused ANC chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe of sexual harassment are pressing her to drop the charges and return to Lusikisiki in the Eastern…
Jaycee Nxamakele, the former mayor of Matlosana in Klerksdorp who recently committed suicide after killing his wife and children, may have been targeted for a political purge by…
There was a time when the tiny town of Alicedale in the Eastern Cape was a major railway junction between Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg. Now private-public investment to…
Winner of the Steve Biko Memorial Award Mbuyisi Mgibisa argues that many South African community radio stations are neglecting their public role, with a number of journalists…
It doesn’t surprise David Bullard that he was passed over as an MC for the Mondi awards, ‘cos he’s always said what’s really needed is a writing award that encourages new talent…
Thabo Mbeki visits a community crossing the digital divide, writes Mbuyisi Mgibisa Ten years ago, Tsilithwa locality was one of the least desirable addresses in the Transkei. It…
Mbuyisi Mgibisa finds that converted buses may be tomorrow’s classrooms for Eastern Cape rural schools Deep in the rural area of Transkei, 35 kilometres from Umtata, Vukani…
Eric Njokweni attended school with Mandela in 1938 and 1939 during Level 4 and 5 classes (Grades 11 and 12) at Healdtown. Njokweni says Mandela was a friendly and outgoing…
