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Makgabeng: Protest Art, a Century Before 20 Aug 2013 | 05:21 pm
One hundred years before the first democratic elections saw Nelson Mandela elected as president of a fully democratic nation, a small tribe in a distant corner of South Africa struggled against invade...
Marikana, one year later: hell below ground 16 Aug 2013 | 05:43 pm
It is a year since the event that shook South Africa to its core. There is no need to belabour what occurred in the dusty veld of Marikana on 16 August 2012, other than to say it was the first massacr...
Union Wars, Marikana, or are They? 5 Jun 2013 | 01:39 pm
The truth is that factional violence has long been a way of life in the mining union business. And that was when there was just one power player, the NUM. Now, with two unions battling for supremacy i...
Chechnya & Boston: A Global Tragedy 20 Apr 2013 | 10:59 am
As US authorities hunt the second of two young men, boys really, in and around Boston, I look at how and why two smart young kids are willing to kill strangers and die thousands of kilometres from the...
What The Commissioner Knew 19 Mar 2013 | 10:26 pm
No matter how hard police commissioner Riah Phiyega tried to wriggle out of answering the Farlam Commission’s questions, one thing is clear: The police general does, at very least, know for certain th...
Incident in a Small Town 18 Mar 2013 | 08:46 am
INCIDENT IN A SMALL TOWN When eighteen year old Norman ‘Herman’ Mokau and his friends walked from Meetsetshehla Secondary School in the western Limpopo town of Vaalwater on November 24th, 2011 and cha...
Behind the Commission at Marikana 4 Mar 2013 | 10:05 am
Mzoxolo Magidiwana, on crutches, says police went around finishing off wounded miners. The Marikana Commission has finally begun to hear from the miners who were at the heart of the strike last ...
Anger and Criminality 24 Jan 2013 | 02:56 pm
After two days of violent protests against plans to merge Sasolburg into the Ngwathe local municipality, Sasolburg’s black township, Zamdela, was quiet for a brief spell on Tuesday morning. The roads ...
The Death of a Miner 3 Sep 2012 | 01:59 am
They were Ntsenyeho’s miner comrades and they were angry
Small Koppie Revisited 2 Sep 2012 | 10:27 am
“It only says that he died of unnatural causes. Nothing more. We have many questions.”
