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Sanef, veteran journalists and political leaders have paid tribute to Baldwin Ndaba, remembering the veteran reporter as a fearless accountability journalist, mentor and beloved newsroom presence whose work left a lasting mark on South African journalism

Baldwin Ndaba remembered as ‘a newspaper man’s reporter’

Sanef, veteran journalists and political leaders have paid tribute to Baldwin Ndaba, remembering the veteran reporter as a fearless accountability journalist, mentor and beloved…

Affirmation: Solidarity with Cuba, marking 65 years since the failed Bay of Pigs invasion by the imperialist US regime, which sought to destroy the Cuban Revolution. Photo: SACP

We stand with Cuba, our friend

The protests rejected this. They insisted that what we are seeing is the expansion of a single logic: imperial in character, colonial in structure, even when it speaks the…

Former president of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe.

PAC’s Jaki Seroke: Sobukwe would have supported the GNU

He said nation building is hampered when enemies are embedded and ready to sabotage the government of national unity

The African Transformation Movement (ATM) has replaced its long-standing president, Vuyolwethu Zungula. (@ATMovement_SA/Twitter)

No plans to merge with MK party or deregister ATM, says leader

Vuyo Zungula insists the party will remain independent, despite its alliance with Jacob Zuma’s party

Zizana Peteni plays Robert Sobukwe in the play Lala Ngenxeba/Of Love and Revolution, written by Monageng ‘Vice’ Motshabi which is on at Joburg’s Market Theatre. Photos: Thandile Zwelibanzi

At 100: Unveiling the heart of Sobukwe

Play explores the intimate love and enduring sacrifices of Robert Sobukwe and his wife Veronica on the centenary of his birth

Anti-apartheid activist: Robert Sobukwe, leader of the Pan Africanist Congress, in his cell at the prison on Robben Island. Derek Hook and Leswin Laubscher’s book Darkest Before Dawn tells the story of the years after his release. Photo: Getty Images

Sobukwe and the Red Berets

This is an edited extract from the book Darkest Before Dawn: Writings, Testimonies and Correspondence from the Life of Robert Sobukwe

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Radio in South Africa marks 100 years of shaping identity and resistance

This is an edited extract from My Radio Memory: Listening to the Listener, which is edited by Robin Sewlal, with articles by 100 contributors. This one is by the journalist,…

(Photo by Gallo Images/Darren Stewart)

What Youth Day means to South Africa’s young people

Three interns at the Mail & Guardian write about being young in South Africa today

Zandile Mafe, who faces charges of terrorism and arson, on Wednesday admitted in the Western Cape high court that he had set fire to parliament at the beginning of last year.  (Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP via Getty Images)

Parliament fire suspect to be sent for psychiatric observation

Defence advocate Dali Mpofu SC argued it would be ‘abuse’ if Mafe were to be detained for months only to be found ‘sane’

South Africa has an awkward history with human rights, to put it mildly. But a renewed recognition of the revolutionary potential of human rights to bring about profound changes in society is long overdue. (Marco Longari/AFP)

Human Rights Day reminds us of our progress and failures

The history of human rights in South Africa is complex, not least because the removal of oppression has not equated to substantive liberation

Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe: New Reflections, edited by Benjamin Pogrund (Jonathan Ball)

New ways of seeing Sobukwe

This collection of essays by people touched by the PAC leader opens a debate on his influence

Former political prisoner Kenny Motsamai spent 28 years in prison for a crime committed as a member of the Azanian
People’s Liberation Army during apartheid. (Gianluigi Guercia/AFP)

Motsamai journeys from prison to Parliament

The newly sworn-in delegate was only recently released from Boksburg prison and is on parole after serving almost 28 years behind bars

Taking advantage of local communities’ despair and desperation, the politicians agitate by blaming foreigners for stealing jobs (Getty)

ANC booed at xenophobic panel

Political leaders discussed attacks on foreign nationals and while most of the parties had their views applauded, the ANC representative was booed

Sobukwe (left) and the PAC spoke about the dispossession of our land as early as 1959. (AFP)

Sobukwe was no apartheid sellout, as Mapaila claims

The regime regarded the PAC leader as the only political prisoner. The others, including Nelson Mandela, were ‘ordinary’ prisoners

Party spokesperson Kenneth Mokgatlhe on Monday said the party held its last elective conference in December 2015, with the next only scheduled for the year 2020. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

PAC rejects ‘sham’ elective conference by ‘rogue members’

Party spokesperson Kenneth Mokgatlhe says the party held its last elective conference in December 2015, with the next only scheduled for the year 2020

Patricia de Lille’s GOOD party will be contesting the 2019 elections nationally and in all the nine provinces. (Netwerk24/Adrian de Kock )

De Lille is back for ‘GOOD’

The former Cape Town mayor dismissed concerns over the viability of her new political movement

Lesetja Kganyago said the central bank was looking at four 25 basis points hikes by the end of 2020. This would bring the repo rate to 7.5% by the end of 2020. (Bloomberg)

‘Mother of Azania’ Veronica Sobukwe dies at 91

Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe — struggle icon and widow of Robert Sobukwe — died on Wednesday morning

Good shot: Nomvo Booi is seen here with comrades at the Bamagamoyo camp at Mothopheng Military College in Tanzania (Supplied)

Nomvo ‘Poqokazi’ Booi, a mother of the struggle

Nomvo Booi was as important to the battle against apartheid as her male counterparts

De Lille has thanked opposition parties in the city for saving her from the motion

De Lille thanks ANC for saving her bacon

The mayor lives to fight another day as opposition scolds DA’s ‘racism’

(Reuters)

28 years since the the unbanning of the ANC: what have we learned

As we remember the days in which apartheid was finally toppled, we must ask how we will, in 28 years’ time, remember South Africa as it is now