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Seldom heard: Giyani — Land of Blood is a new TV drama in Xitsonga, a minority language in South Africa. Photo: Tshedza Pictures

‘Giyani’ translates to viewers

After what feels like forever, Xitsonga speakers get to see themselves represented on the small screen

Backdrop to freedom: In his latest exhibition, Mandela’s Roots, Bonile Bam uses the landscapes of Nelson Mandela’s childhood to tell significant parts of the struggle hero’s story in a new and lyrical way.

​Madiba becomes one with the elements

In ‘Mandela’s Roots’ Bonile Bam allows the viewer to fill in where the open-ended images take them

The Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill recognises the Khoi-San as people worthy of legislative protection. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Khoi San protesters demand recognition at ANC conference

The group is there to demand recognition as the first indigenous people in the land which now makes up the Republic of South Africa.

Milisuthando (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/ M&G)

The strange places we misplace power

"The power we attribute to the people in whose name apartheid was made is perhaps too generous at times and too limited to the power to have things".

The EFF refused to leave Parliament after chanting ‘pay back the money’

Pioneer land ruling puts justice first

A welcome Constitutional Court judgment puts paid to a conservative legal view of ownership

Speaking after the match

Gigaba: ‘We’ll work within the law to transform SA’

Malusi Gigaba says the land issue must be resolved speedily to avoid Zimbabwe-style invasions.

Ntokozo Qwabe

Chewing the land fat (and fillet)

Dinnertime banter made way for political debate when the ‘Tipgate’ Oxford Rhodes scholar Ntokozo Qwabe dined with like-minded supporters this week.

Khaya Dlanga: Lessons from Mugabe

Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe might have taken flack for his policies, but South Africans could learn from him about being masters of their destinies.

Landed in debt

Landed in debt

The R6-billion figure emerged from a government answer to a Democratic Alliance question in Parliament last week.

The battle for Constantia

Several prime properties in Constantia, which could have been used for the resettlement of about 80 land claimant families, are included in the land p

Bloem land price blows up

Free State Premier Ace Magashule has been dragged into a dirty fight over the sale of prime land to a Bloemfontein businessman.

Metro invokes defunct law to gag media

The Ekurhuleni metro council invoked a defunct ordinance from 1939 to ban the media and public from a secret meeting about controversial land issues.

‘New land Act like apartheid’

Communities are nervous about the handing over of control of communally owned land to traditional leaders for administration.

Land Bank head in new probe

Newly appointed Director General of Agriculture, Njabulo Nduli, is understood to be leading the charge against Mohlahlane.

High price for a cheap car

State accused of stealing land and livelihoods for a factory that now lies empty.

Red-tape nightmare

A community tourism project in the Wild Coast could have made over R4-million a month for one of the poorest regions in SA had it not been halted.

Wild Coast needs a one-stop tourism shop

The communities of the Wild Coast drink from polluted waterholes shared with dogs and livestock. There are no toilets. Medical facilities are rare.