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Life on the edge: Stories from Zambia

Life on the edge: Stories from Zambia

For Zambian subsistence farmers losing a crop means going hungry, leaving few resources to spare when the health system cannot help them.

Giving hope to children with disabilities

In an almost forgotten corner of Zimbabwe, the BaTonga people try to scratch a living from the dessicated earth of the Binga district.

No longer out of sight or out of mind

In an almost forgotten corner of Zimbabwe the BaTonga people try to scratch a living from the dessicated earth of the Binga district.

Africa’s brain gain

"Migration has been happening since time immemorial. The United States was built as a nation of immigrants. Migration happens. Fact."

‘You never forget the past’

Anne Marie fled the Rwandan genocide in 1994. But her new life in South African was shattered in the 2008 xenophobia attacks.

Finding family in a foreign land

Dosso Ndessomin knows all about xenophobia — but he also knows how many South Africans are welcoming to foreign nationals.

‘The end of this story may be very sad’

Jacques Kikonga Kamanda is a gentle leader of refugees. But he wants the South African government to do its job — and avoid catastrophe.

Somalia’s loss, Johannesburg’s gain

As part of a series on xenophobia, the <i>M&G</i> presents the Sowda Hussen Mohamud story…

Xenophobia and the World Cup

While the nation may have rallied behind Ghana as "Africa’s hope", refugees and migrants fear that come July 12 the solidarity may have withered away.

Basic learning an uphill battle

Basic learning an uphill battle

The war in Mozambique may have ended 18 years ago, but its legacy lives on in the classrooms of rural schools in Zambezia province.

Earthquake ‘swarm’ shakes Malawi

Earthquake ‘swarm’ shakes Malawi

A series of quakes has left people too frightened to sleep indoors until a geological survey is concluded.

Chopping at the trees of life

Vast swaths of a once-fertile country have become wastelands and life for rural Malawians is now even tougher, reports Nicole Johnston.

Cape of fair trade

Nicole Johnston goes bed-hopping in the Western Cape, from boutique backpackers to five-star eco-luxury resorts.

Confessions of a chardonnay socialist

Nicole Johnston savours the (vegetarian) culinary delights of Dubai.

Survivor Waterberg

Nicole Johnston goes on a survival course with author Lee Gutteridge and learns about the birds and the bees and the plants and the trees.

Rape victim draws short straw

Incompetent prosecution often frustrates the intention of minimum sentencing legislation.

‘Misogyny won’t be tolerated’

Commission for Gender Equality chairperson Nomboniso Gasa fields a few tough questions from Nicole Johnston.

Airs and graces

Nicole Johnston caught some ZZZZZs at a weekend hideaway, just metres from the office.

Modern mind, ancient spirit

Japan blesses Nicole Johnston with good fortune and a new reverence for vegetables.

No consequences: our culture of impunity

History has shown us that people will behave as badly as they are allowed to. From Nazi Germany to apartheid South Africa and Rwanda during the genocide, we have seen how…