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Brazen theft: When a political formation that played no role in the armed struggle adopts the MK name and symbols, it is more than confusion, argues the writer. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

The ANC’s heritage under siege

Others go as far as attempting to steal the very names and symbols that belong to the ANC and its fallen heroes

Former South African and ANC president, Jacob Zuma. (MKP/X)

We own and control eThekwini, says MK party, but denies inciting strike

The Jacob Zuma-backed party will be facing off in the electoral court on Tuesday against the ANC, which is trying to have it deregistered This content is restricted to registered…

Healing: Chris Hani’s daughter Lindiwe Hani at the wreath-laying ceremony on 10 April 2018 in Boksburg. This year she delivered the Hugh Lewin Memorial lecture at St John’s College, 30 years after her father was assassinated. Photo: Frennie Shivambu/Gallo Images

Lindiwe Hani: ‘Realising dreams is a gift to my father’

Chris Hani’s daughter Lindiwe Hani has learnt to not be buried by his assassination 30 years ago but to draw strength from the way he lived his life

Bhekizizwe Peterson pictured with National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS)  awards judge Professor Hlonipha Mokoena in 2018, after a book he co-edited won a prize. (Image courtesy of NIHSS)

Great heart of African literature: Bheki Peterson’s expansive vision of the world

Having conducted the bulk of his study during apartheid, which informed his scholarship, Peterson left us with provocations for the future

?The SABC 8 is a group of journalists who were suspended in 2016 for speaking out about censorship at the public broadcaster. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

[Spike] Ramon Leon, Tony Leon’s father, has died

Ramon Leon passed away over the weekend

President Cyril Ramaphosa paid tribute to Mam’ Winnie at a memorial held at her hometown of Bizana

Mam’ Winnie was a gallant spirit: Ramaphosa

April has become a significant month for the struggle

‘In honour of Hodgson

Farewell to a lifelong activist

‘Hodgson rejected outright the racial privilege that many chose to enjoy in the face of a crime against humanity’

Zuma haunted by ghosts of freedom fighters past

The bronzed ghosts of South Africa’s fight against oppression march defiantly towards the Nasrec convention centre in Soweto on Monday.

A still from the film ‘Kalushi: The Story of Solomon Mahlangu’.

​‘Kalushi’ is a meeting of history and cinema

Mandla Dube’s film on Solomon Mahlangu resists a political overview and apartheid hero-worship.

‘Iyho Solomon’ anthem a potent rallying cry for students

Students have embraced the struggle song invoking Solomon Mahlangu, who was hanged by the apartheid government and inspired the film Kalushi.

[From our archives] Martha Mahlangu’s house to become a museum

The Mamelodi home of struggle icon Solomon Mahlangu’s mother will be turned into a museum, President Jacob Zuma announced at her funeral in Pretoria.

President Jacob Zuma has pledged to start a scholarship fund in honour of struggle hero Solomon Mahlangu.

Zuma reveals scholarship after Martha Mahlangu’s death

Tributes from the president, city of Tshwane and the National Youth Development Agency have underscored Marth Mahlangu’s contribution to the struggle.

‘Our freedom is written in Chris Hani’s blood’

Slain revolutionary leader Chris Hani would not have believed that 14 years into democracy, South Africa is still an unequal society, the Congress of South African Trade Unions…