Few people are tough enough to go without food for 33 days. Only the strongest are ready to die of hunger for something they believe in....

Dear Learn and Teach, I am an ex-prisoner who has served three years in prison. On coming home I was deeply excited by the article in...

Sicelo Dlomo’s mother has always wanted the best for her six children. Like all mothers, her greatest wish was to see them all grow up...

Last year Simon Letseka, who comes from Garankua, was hired to do some building and plumbing work in Johannesburg. The man who hired him,...

There is a blue “Zola Budd’ taxi on the road with a sticker on the back that says, “Move over – Nomsa”. The sticker tells no lies – the...

When you win, you love him and call him a ‘clever’. When you lose, you hate him and call him a donkey. But win or lose, you know that...

The pavement is buzzing. It’s alive. A woman is frying mala mogodu on a dustbin lid. There’s an inyanga selling muti and an old granny is...

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Do you drink to escape from your troubles and worries? Do you drink because you are shy with other people? Do you drink alone? Do you...

When Sicelo Dlomo died last month, his name was added to a terrible and frightening list – a list of the enemies of apartheid who have...

Viva! The long, hard struggle against skin lightening creams is over! Just after Christmas last year, the Department of Health made a new...