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Journalist and author of Broke & Broken - The Shameful Legacy of Gold Mining in South Africa.
Africa Day is generally marked as a day for celebration, a day to rejoice at the steps taken by previous generations to fight against and eliminate the effects of colonialism,…
Recently, a proposed amendment announced by the Tshiamiso Trust — set up to disburse compensation — now threatens to shut out even more former mine-workers with the disease from…
The death of Spokes Sithole at 108 exposes the broken promise of one of South Africa’s largest land restitution settlements, where freedom and land ownership have not translated…
In Limpopo’s villages, being waterless has become so normalised that people seem to have accepted that this is just how life should be — spending hours a day queuing to fill a…
Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi’ depicts the brutality and racism faced by the legendary editor of ‘Drum’ magazine
Villages that neighbour the Kruger National Park face the terrors of armed stock thieves and poachers who are involved in cross-border crime
People in the Fetakgomo Tubatse local municipality, who have to collect water from Motse River, are backing independent candidates because they’re tired of parties’ election…
Women sleep outside in the cold to stop what they consider mineral theft by a mining company, with state collusion
Tebogo Manamela talks to Lucas Ledwaba about helping to preserve Africa’s heritage and the rewards of working with – and sometimes being attacked by – animals at the Kruger…
Fed-up residents and businesses are turning to the courts to get their local councils to take action on power outages, sewage overflows, unrepaired roads and other failures to…
Families will never forget how iphika took their fathers, brothers, husbands and breadwinners after they spent the best years of their lives digging up gold in the mines
Some black and white farmers are working together in the name of progress in a sector that has long been associated with racial exclusion and the abuse of black people
A family’s struggle against alleged intimidation and failure to act by the authorities mirrors the daily challenges farm dwellers face
As a child, Mokhudu Machaba had to cross a flooded river on her way to school in rural Limpopo. She fell pregnant at 15 but returned to complete her matric and found employment…
Endless court cases and threats plague community of South Africa’s most costly restitution settlement
Special Economic Zones will empower thousands in the Limpopo province
Residents say the world’s largest open-cast platinum mine on their doorstep is killing them; mine management disagrees
It was a quiet day at the polls in the Limpopo district with elders wanting to vote and the youth cynical about elections
Lepelle-Nkumpi allegedly paid millions to illegal miners for gravel to use in major building projects
Dr Johan Wentzel and Dr Ephraim Mabena are tied together by a common passion
