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Former South African President and now uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) leader Jacob Zuma dances on stage at the MK’s last rally in eMalahleni on May 26, 2024 ahead of the South African elections. (Photo by MICHELE SPATARI/AFP via Getty Images)

Time to retire the tribe

We need to find new and better ways to talk about our society

Party leader: Mangosuthu Buthelezi arrives at the Jabulani stadium in Soweto to address supporters during the Inkatha Freedom Party’s campaign launch in Gauteng ahead of the1999 elections. Photo: Odd Andersen/Getty Images

Buthelezi fought for 50 years to control how his story was told

The founder of the Inkatha Freedom Party’s greatest fear was to be recorded as being on the wrong side of history

Mangosuthu Buthelezi.

IFP founder Mangosuthu Buthelezi has died

An accomplished orator, historian and custodian of Zulu tradition and culture, Buthelezi was perhaps one of the most contradictory figures in South African politics

Durban, 1973: Workers at the Consolidated Textile Mill in Jacobs demand a wage hike of R5.

The seeds of the 1973 Durban strikes still grow

Several unions were formed in the wake of the seminal strikes 50 years ago, including the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa

King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini. Photo: Supplied.

The Zulu kingdom should develop customary law to keep the peace

Developing the common law of amaZulu will help bring about a peaceful resolution to succession and land conflicts

Zulu monarch, Misuzulu ka Zwelithini (C). (Photo by Gallo Images/Sunday Times/ Sandile Ndlovu)

Job cuts start at Ingonyama Trust Board

The organisation’s staff complement will be cut by half.

Infighting: Congress of the People leader Mosiuoa Lekota (above) says he is still the leader of Cope, despite fists flying at his media briefing. Picture: Gallo Images / Netwerk24 / Dean Vivier

Terror of old now terrorised: Cope slipping from Mosiuoa Lekota

The Cope president should have bailed long ago and saved himself an embarrassing end

(John McCann/M&G)

OPINION| Wretched zones of the damned in South Africa

Durban and the eThekwini region was in decline – fuelled by corruption and political killings – before the deadly floods sank it