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I believe: Greater powers guide Fano Buthelezi, who owns a business making doors and other items in Katlehong township, Gauteng. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Load-shedding: The carpenter calls on his ancestors

Fano Buthelezi believes his traditional faith – with a mix of Christianity and Islam – keeps his woodwork shop going amid Eskom’s blackouts

City of Ekurhuleni, Mayor Mzwandile Masina campaigns on October 03, 2021 in Ekurhuleni, South Africa. South Africa’s municipal elections will be held on 01 November 2021 to elect councils for all district, metropolitan and local municipalities in each of the country’s nine provinces. (Photo by OJ Koloti/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Khaya Koko: Katlehong is Mzwandile Masina’s ‘Animal Farm’

The Ekurhuleni mayor’s family home and the Katlehong section in which it is situated are spared the debilitating five-hour blackouts from powerless Eskom

Kathelhong community members patrol the neighbourhood to prevent looting. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Katlehong residents banded together to keep ‘The Last Complex Standing’

Khaya Koko, who lives in the township, writes about how he and other residents of Zone 3 and Zone 4 devised a plan to protect their area

Midnight deadline for Gauteng school applications

‘Bright’ learner fatally shot outside Katlehong school

The child was caught in the crossfire of an alleged shootout between two rival taxi associations

Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi assesses fire damage last year at Mohloli Secondary School in Sharpeville. Last week, two classrooms were destroyed at a primary school in Katlehong. (Mduduzi Ndzingi/Sowetan/Gallo Images)

Schools shouldn’t be political bait

If the state allows disgruntled citizens to gamble with the future of schoolchildren, we will not fix the inequalities that cripple the country

Sithembile Mbete wants to re-socialise young men, and as a lecturer, she has some power to do so. (Graphic: John McCann)

Sithembile Mbete

Academic, University of Pretoria

The Marathon informal settlement in Germiston was a flashpoint during April’s attacks.

Slice Of Life: ​The journey to opportunity

"Opposed to this colonial idea of what a city is, townships are actually cities"

Madibaville isn’t always paradise

Living in a settlement named after Nelson Mandela doesn’t mean you have the basics.

The mother of four-year-old Themba died weeks after his birth. He is being raised by his grandmother Sophie

When mother is snatched away, Gogo picks up the pieces

South Africa’s maternal mortality rate leaves the elderly to deal with its consequences, with many unable to keep up.

Decommissioned old age home still operating in Katlehong

An old age home in Katlehong is still accommodating people after it was shut down in 2009, Gauteng’s department of health and social development says.

Woman arrested for killing boyfriend

A 24-year-old woman was arrested for murder in Katlehong. The woman allegedly shot dead her boyfriend, a metro police office, after an argument.