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Bound: Black men arrested for being in white area illegally. Photo: Ernest Cole

Brash photographer Ernest Cole revisited

House of Bondage: The book that shocked the world

A foreign migrant sits on his bed inside a boarded up room occupied by two people on the upstairs floor in a building in the Kwa Mai Mai area in Johannesburg, on May 14, 2020. – Over 50 people, residents of the same building and mostly foreign nationals are currently unemployed because of the lockdown imposed by the South African authorities to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Dozens of them are unable to feed themselves, as the only charity providing them with food has not brought any in several days. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)

African youth: Empowering the continent’s greatest asset

Education is the best way to turn young people’s potential into realised achievements

Jonas Gwangwa performs at the Joy of Jazz.

Jonas Gwangwa embodied South Africa’s struggle for a national culture

Gwangwa’s love for the struggle was genuine and deep, never cosmetic – and he couldn’t have written an unattractive tune if he tried

(John McCann/M&G)

Mandela said I could, so I got my doctorate

My mother was a domestic worker and my father a miner, and I went to school in the townships

Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko (in the poster above) taught that philosophy is a powerful thing, especially if it is shared. (Gallo Images/Oryx Media Archive)

Danger in restricting knowledge

Secrecy and the selective education of a few led to the fall of the Ancient Egyptians

Students at the Fees Must Fall protests.

Young people must take the baton from the heroes of 1976

In the hope of creating a better South African future, the youth of today should look to the past

Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price

20 years after the ‘Mamdani affair’, the old adversary rejoins UCT

The academic who took on the university’s ‘bantu’ curriculum has returned, marking a ‘path towards decolonisation’

Midnight deadline for Gauteng school applications

Restore hope to SA’s democracy

A better future is possible – but only if the scourge of inequality is banished

Graphic by John McCann/ M&G

Rethink role of technical colleges

Germany is an example of how economic transformation could take place in South Africa

A crippled education system brings the whole vision to its knees

A present with poor education leads to a future with no hope

When the socks that need pulling up are absent, we must turn to leaders, the government, municipalities and citizens, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee.

Rededicating quality education

Winner: Investing in the Future Education Award — Tiger Kloof Educational Institution

The first expectant girls in Pretoria School were enrolled in the 1980s

Bantu Education cannot continue to haunt us

The achievements of learners are still strongly (and sadly) linked to the circumstances of their birth, writes Annette Lovemore.

Motshekga on Ramphele: She’s looking for a hobby

Angie Motshekga and Mamphela Ramphele have clashed again after the Agang SA leader’s fresh comments that education under apartheid was better in SA.

Resistance: André Muller started his own church.

Holomisa castigates ANC for upsetting Mandela family

Bantu Holomisa has warned the ANC against making insensitive ­statements about the ­medical ­condition of former president Nelson Mandela.

Apartheid psychology persists in schools

Few people realise how far South Africa’s education system has come since the dawn of democracy in 1994.

UCT in war over ‘bantu education’

UCT in war over ‘bantu education’

Students and academics question move to ‘close’ Centre for African Studies, writes <b>David Macfarlane</b>.

Keeping it reel

The story of the late Onkgopotse Tiro is told in a brooding documentary by Steve Mokwena called <i>A Blues for Tiro</i>.

Somafco pupils wait to come home

The Solo­mon Mahlangu Freedom College (Somafco) in Tanzania for South African refugees has recently closed.