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Poet-activist: Vusi Mahlasela came of age in a community defined by oppression and extraordinary creative resilience. Photo: Gallo Record Company

Vusi Mahlasela has never stopped singing for change

South Africa’s most beloved troubadour on new music, staying rooted in Mamelodi and why peace is worth singing about

Intentional: Billy Monama quotes Nelson Mandela on the power of
music to elevate and liberate, to unite people in a shared voice.

Billy Monama is staging a revival of memory

The Rebirth of Ubuntu returns with a focus on legacy, as Billy Monama pushes for music that remembers, questions and resonates beyond the stage

In any society, power decides whose voice becomes truth.

Power decides whose voice becomes truth and whose reputation has staying power

When dominant narratives control how communities or individuals are perceived, reputations are reduced to stereotypes, biases emerge, achievements are undervalued and potential…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and President Cyril
Ramaphosa at the G20 Summit in Johannesburg.

How Ramaphosa Trump-ed his US counterpart: A global communication masterclass

The G20 Summit was a moment that announced to the world that the Global South is ready not only to contribute to global discourse but to shape it

Ubuntu challenges the dominant views that dehumanise, isolate, stigmatise and exclude those living with disabilitiesPhoto: File

People with disabilities are not broken

Ubuntu challenges the dominant views that dehumanise, isolate, stigmatise and exclude those living with disabilities

If we citizens act on the principles of ubuntu (empathetic caring) and batho pele (people first) then we would not need talk shops. Photo: Lisa Skinner

National dialogue: Only ‘ubuntu’ citizen actions, not talk shops, will solve SA’s problems

Building the country we want isn’t the government’s sole responsibility. People need to act and use the abilities they have to effect change

Limpopo’s Dr MJ Madiba Secondary School alumni have launched #50ToFifty to raise R20 000 for school infrastructure. (File photo)

Solidarity, equality, sustainability: School’s campaign inspired by SA’s G20 theme

Limpopo’s Dr MJ Madiba Secondary School alumni have launched #50ToFifty to raise R20 000 for school infrastructure

South Africans could face rising living and borrowing costs after inflation accelerated to 4% in April, with economists warning that fuel-driven global price shocks — not domestic demand — are complicating the South African Reserve Bank’s interest rate outlook

Gen Z South Africans make ends meet through hustle and pragmatism

The findings challenge stereotypes, showing a generation that’s resourceful, pragmatic and shaping its own financial future

Recycle rather than expand or build more landfills.

Ubuntu can help achieve the dream of zero landfill

Our waste-management sites are filling up fast, with serious health and environmental consequences

The CCMA uses dialogue based on conciliation and mediation to transform labour relations.  Photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Workers’ Day: How the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration can promote social justice through ubuntu

The CCMA uses dialogue based on conciliation and mediation to transform labour relations

The ubuntu economy can help tackle South Africa’s youth unemployment crisis

Using an ubuntu-based approach, centring care, creativity and climate, the education system can be changed to better align with aspirations and market needs

Koketso Rathumbu Advocacy Specialist, GBVF Response Fund

Embracing pride and progress: Reflecting on 35 years of LGBTQIA+ advocacy in Africa

Koketso Rathumbu and esteemed panelists unpacked how violence still impacts the LGBTQIA+ community and how this marginalised population is affected by stigma and persisting…

The late Pravin Gordhan. (Oupa Nkosi)

Dear EFF, Africans do not insult the dead

The Economic Freedom Fighters spat on Gordhan, the real freedom fighter who embodied integrity

Nelson Mandela quite rightly understood that we cannot move from apartheid into a new constitutional dispensation without a fundamental moral re-orientation.  Photo: Walter Dhladhla/AFP

Moral regeneration has failed miserably in South Africa

Cynical politicians have repurposed ubuntu into people helping one another to eat a little

Sport is a great unifier; it helps children learn discipline and how
to work together.

Community Sports Solutions takes Gugulethu youth off the streets

Sponsorship is required for the initiative to adequately fulfil its objectives

Photo by Paul Zinken/picture alliance via Getty Images

Proudly woman, proudly South African

Women exhibit a radical resistance to the war within and the war experienced in their daily lives.

Reckless: Operation Dudula members attack black Africans in Alexandra, Johannesburg. Getting rid of poor black foreigners will not stop crime and solve the unemployment problem.  (Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Xenophobia and the beggaring of neighbours

South Africa is quick to forget ubuntu or its own destabilising role when it comes to regional policies

Now, back in the day, the police had a habit of setting dogs on people in the township

OPINION | How I found out my dog wasn’t racist

Having a hound that barks at black people is tricky if you’re a white kid moving to a township

Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu speaks during a press conference in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Mauricio Dueñas / AFP)

Charter For Compassion is a good guide for continuing Tutu’s legacy

The best way to honour Tutu’s legacy is to champion his values of unity, justice and compassion, as espoused in the charter to which he contributed

Not enough: It seems that the regular salary is not enough for young South Africans. Many turn to side hustles to make ends meet.

Toxic workplaces: Are human rights organisations some of the culprits?

Some human rights organisations are enabling toxicity to harmful degrees