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Members of the Sobukwe family and  VUT academic staff discuss how VUT’s public affiliation with Mama Sobukwe will do much  to help address the erasure of PAC heroes and heroines in the national discourse about the struggle. (Photos: Musa Rapuleng)

Mother of Azania carried love in her heart

Were she alive, she would have shared the award with everybody

Friends of Mama Sobukwe celebrate with her upon her release from detention

Veronica Sobukwe’s guiding ethos

Robert Sobukwe’s wife was an activist, and she looked after the children while he was incarcerated

Hopeful: Azapo says it is targeting the 10-million voters who are not ANC members in the May 8 elections. (Gianluigi Guercia/AFP)

Letters to the editor: March 22 to 28

Our readers write in about Azapo, Islamophobia, the elections in the wake of Eskom’s woes and failing state-owned enterprises

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)

Thank you eternally, Mme Sobukwe

In next week’s edition of Friday a tribute to yet another woman who should not have suffered will honour the life of Mme Sobukwe.

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

The Eastern Cape hearings started with the hall packed to capacity, with about a hundred people still waiting outside. (Delwyn Verasamy)

AbaThembu king wants his own Ingonyama Trust

The first day of the land hearings in the Eastern Cape opened with a submission calling to replicate KwaZulu-Natal’s traditional land trust

EFF and DA to host opposing rallies in PE ahead of motion of no confidence in Mayor Athol Trollip

I’m not going for cheap votes over land, says Lekota

‘Don’t give land to people who don’t know how to use it; give it to people who you have prepared’

‘Tell the real truth’: The Pan Africanist Congress says it does not dispute the fact that Sibongile Promise Khumalo

Letters to the editor: November 3 to November 9 2017

Readers write in saying Sibongile Promise Khumalo’s story is untrue and Sassa is run like a spaza shop

The motion of no confidence against President Jacob Zuma displayed tension between party and conscience.

Opposition’s show of unity is masking its cracks

Opposition parties have become “divided down the middle" after the motion of no confidence vote

Struggle stalwart Moseneke retires from the Bench

The senior judge helped draft the Constitution, and has worked valiantly to uphold it ever since.

Justice minister to launch exhumation project at Pretoria prison

The ministry will attempt to exhume the remains of more than eighty political prisoners who were hanged at the facility during apartheid.

Imprisoned by the Freedom Charter

Historians neglect the role of African nationalism and black consciousness in SA’s freedom struggle.

Zuma vows better service delivery at Human Rights Day address

President Jacob Zuma has hailed South Africa as one of the few countries in the world that includes socioeconomic rights in its Constitution.

Wednesday was D-day for SA’s political parties

Elections lists: EFF picks passion over formal qualifications

The EFF’s national elections list has been released. And in keeping with expectations, it has selected people based on their experience and passion.

Excluding Arab states contradicts the ideals of pan-Africanism

Denying Arab states from the 8th Pan-African Congress is a mark of the organisation’s continued exclusionary behaviour.

A new concept came out of the 8th Pan-African Congress

Arabs and the West must pay for slavery, says Pan-African Congress

The 8th Pan-African Congress has called for reparations regarding the extensive and continuing damage colonialism has done, writes Bennie Bunsee.