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Fatima Moosa

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Fatima Moosa

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The students’ demands and the reactions they solicit no longer match those of 2015’s #FeesMustFall – students need an actionable plan, funds, accommodation.

Why do the student protests seem different this year?

Their demands and the reactions they solicit no longer match those of 2015’s #FeesMustFall – students need an actionable plan, funds, accommodation

In the book

Between Durban and Bombay

Ebrahim Essa’s memoir provides an evocative account of a young man grappling with life

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Gauteng IDZ is up and running

The industrial hub at OR Tambo will create much-needed employment

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​Conscious leadership is the solution to the world’s problems

People are losing trust in core institutions; leaders must act for the greater good to regain it

Big hits: Members of the successful boy band BTS — V, Suga, Jin, Jungkook, RM, Jimin and j-hope — visit the Empire State Building in New York City earlier this year. (Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)

Get on the Hallyu Wave, K-pop is taking over the world

The music phenomenon has an unusual origin: South Korea ‘created’ it to pay off an IMF loan – and now its global fanbase is exploding

On Friday, the activists hosted peaceful sit-ins all around the city. They used the hashtag #TaxePasMesMo (Don’t tax my megabytes). (Twitter)

Benin repeals social media tax after protests

The government cancelled the tax it had decreed in late ​August taxing its citizens for accessing the internet and social media apps

South Africa has one of the highest rape statistics in the world, even higher than some countries at war

Cops drop charges against #TheTotalShutDown GP

Some of the charges levelled against the movement include violating the permit, intimidating the president and violence at the Union Buildings

Football fans tune in to Liverpool’s Salah

But it’ll take more than the celebration of a Muslim player to kick prejudice out of the game

The words that I have is you never know who’s watching, so just keep playing hard and working hard each and every single day.

Gift Ngoepe on his incredible journey to the MLB – and how to get more Africans there

The Daily Vox team caught up with him to speak about his transfer and his baseball plans for SA.

(Lucas Ledwaba/Mukurukuru Media)

The case for giving zama-zamas mining rights

It’s dangerous work done by people who live on the poverty line, and are desperate to provide for their families.

South Africa’s Dane van Niekerk celebrates taking the wicket of India’s Harmanpreet Kaur.

The Proteas lost at the Women’s World Cup and they cried. So what?

Many of the online reactions to the Protea women’s team’s tears implied that of course they’re crying; that’s what girls do.

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Mashaba points finger at civil society: #JhbFire ‘was bound to happen’

Mashaba said he knew the fire was going to happen according to findings he had collected, and blamed human rights lawyers

Wits students who want the academic programme to continue took their peaceful protest from the Science Stadium to the Solomon Mahlangu house.

Wits students barricade Empire Road entrance over res dispute

The students barred vehicles and pedestrians from entering and exiting the campus grounds as they protested the ‘lack of services’ at the university.