Category: Stories
STORYTELLING CHALLENGE: What’s your story?
We challenge you to re-imagine storytelling Everyone has a story to tell. What’s yours? Do...
You strike a woman, you strike a rock! Women’s Day and the events that led to it becoming a national holiday
Sixty years ago today, on August 9, 1956, 20,000 South African women of all colours, races and creeds, staged an unprecedented march on the seat of government to protest the extension of the hated passes laws to include females,...
Women’s Day 2016 meets Elections 2016: Women more important than ever
Political parties generally fielded fewer female ward candidates in the 2016 local government elections, suggesting that voters might be inclined to vote for men on the ward lists where individual candidates are directly...
So skarrel Kaapse hawelose
Die Kaapse koue bring veral ontbering vir die stad se meer as 5 800 haweloses. Maar wie is...
Do our councillors attend enough meetings?
Now that elections are done and dusted, and results are pouring in, I wanted to take a step back...
The ‘double agents’ of the local government elections
Muzonjani Zulu is so determined to change South Africa and to free it from what he describes is a...
Long commute to freedom
Black people in particular bear the brunt of a decade-long focus on building houses instead of cities “at whatever cost”.
Election Resources
It’s never been easier to find the information you need to report on the upcoming August 3 local government elections in South Africa – if you know where to look.
The Panama Papers in Africa: how tax avoidance is robbing Africa of billions
Letitia Diergaardt is a receptionist for a battery-supplier in Windhoek, Namibia. One can almost...
The heartbreaking legacy of SA’s HIV/Aids victims
This story was first published by Sunday Times on July 17,...
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