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Going home: EFF leader Julius Malema surrounded by family and friends outside the KuGompo City regional court yesterday. Photo: EFF
APPEAL

Malema avoids jail for now

The EFF leader will appeal his five-year prison sentence after a court upheld his conviction for firing a rifle at a political rally, while granting leave to challenge the…

  • Lunga Mzangwe
  • Mandisa Makgakga
9 min read
Pyrrhic defeat: Stigma attached to ‘street criminals’ distracts attention away from the crimes of the rich and politically powerful. Photo: Brenton Geach/Gallo Images
CRIMINOLOGY

Stigma against ex-offenders is an indeterminate sentence

This results in the former convicts permanent social and economic exclusion to benefit the wealthy and the politically connected in South Africa

  • Casper Lӧtter
5 min read
Theoneste Bagosora, a former Rwandan army colonel, widely regarded as the architect of the 1994 genocide, died in a hospital in Mali last weekend.(Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)
1994

Africa in brief: 25 September – 2 October

In the round-up: The ‘architect’ of the Rwandan 1994 genocide dies; the Nigerian government kills its citizens and the Twitter ban is lifted

  • The Continent
4 min read
This week Ethiopia became the latest African country to confirm the presence of the highly transmissible Delta variant of Covid-19 within its borders. (Photo by AMANUEL SILESHI/AFP via Getty Images)
AFROBASKET

Africa in brief: 4-11 September

What happened on the continent this past week

  • The Continent
4 min read
Profitable: The prison-industrial complex succeeded in South Africa because of state capture. (Michele Spatari/AFP)
BOSASA

The incarceration of Jacob Zuma is poetic justice

During his tenure as president he enabled state capture and the building of the prison industrial complex

  • Casper Lӧtter
6 min read