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Mawande Ndlangisa, whose two cousins were shot and killed at Mdlalose's Tavern in the Nomzamo settlement in Orlando East, Soweto compared his cousins’ deaths to painful, open flesh wounds which don’t heal with time.

The proliferation of political parties, similar manifestos, the deployment of election observers and post-election destabilisation.

The Parliament of the Kingdom of Lesotho's National Assembly will, after the Christmas break, discuss a proposed motion on the reclamation of some parts of South Africa.

It was the determination of members of the Crown Mines community that led to the arrest of five men for the murder of their neighbour, Sinoxolo Yolanda Noah, a community leader believes.

The high court has ordered the Stellenbosch municipality to allow Basotho caregivers and parents access to initiates as an impasse between the municipality and traditional forums over the initiation site continues.

Oyama Mabandla was a teenage revolutionary when he survived the December 1982 SADF raid on Maseru by a quirk of fate. He wonders if the ANC, as it prepares for its conference 40 years later, has learnt one of the most important lessons of the raid: united it stands, divided it falls

The families of the 1982 and 1985 Maseru massacre victims and survivors will travel to Lesotho for a joint commemoration on Friday. The SA Defence Force raided homes on December 9 1982 and killed 42 people, including 30 Umkhonto weSizwe and ANC members. The 1985 raid left another six South Africans and three Basotho dead.

The leader claimed the killings were carried out by their rival gang, who killed their own members in the mass murders

The 16 patrons cornered and gunned down at the Mdlalose Tavern in Soweto were not the intended targets, the Orlando Magistrate's Court has heard.