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Lord Peter Hain delivered a lecture to commemorate anti-apartheid activist Neil Aggett murdered by the apartheid police in detention.

This is the Neil Aggett Memorial Lecture delivered at Kingswood College in Makhanda.

There are reasons not to emigrate or join the Little Trek back to the Cape Colony

The following names have something in common with Juby Mayet: Ruth First, Bessie Head, Todd Matshikiza, Bloke Modisane, Gwigwi Mrwebi, Can Themba, Jim Bailey, Hugh Margolies, Zeke Mphahlele, Lewis Nkosi and Alf Kumalo. Known as "The Drum Generation", these activist communicators used their creative gifts to speak truth to the oppression of the apartheid regime.

The politician and journalist was fluid in his politics but unswerving in his commitment to unity of African people and a non-racial society

As one critic put it, his poetry conjured up a world built by “an ecstatic surrealist on imaginal hyperdrive.” 

People who are trying to dissuade Cyril Ramaphosa from resigning are only concerned about the effect that this will have on their re-election.

Would they feel their sacrifices were worth it, asks Dali Tambo.

Patients won’t have to travel hours to towns such as Klerksdorp in Matlosana for medical attention.According to the Health Department's spokesperson, Tebogo Lekgethwane, the Superintendent-G...

SA has grown and gone through the dynamics of a maturing democracy. The country has been able to catch up with the rest of the world in terms of governance, economic policies, business, healthcare to claim its place in the sun since that watershed moment in 1994.