Barack Obama Gives Advice to Up-and-Coming Leaders in South Africa
Former US president Barack Obama has advised the youth to worry less about what they want to be, but to rather concern themselves with the journey they take to get there. Obama engaged with young Obama Foundation leaders from across the continent in Honeydew, Johannesburg on Wednesday. This as South Africa celebrates what would have […]
Land Expropriation Without Compensation Key to Taking Forward Madiba’s Vision – Ramaphosa, Zuma
Land expropriation without compensation is one of the key programmes that will take forward former president Nelson Mandela’s vision of a free South Africa, both President Cyril Ramaphosa and former president Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday. The current and former presidents were speaking at the government’s official centenary celebrations of Mandela at his birthplace in […]
‘We Are (Not) the ANC of Mandela’
At the ANC’s policy conference last week, Secretary=General Gwede Mantashe stated that: “The mistake we are committing as South Africans is this thing of thinking we are the ANC of (Nelson) Mandela … Therefore we are darling of everybody in the world. It’s a big mistake. There is no such, a country which is a […]
Why Africa Doesn’t Need Strongmen
Consistent evidence show that when dictators establish themselves over their gullible populations, they rule uninterruptedly by internal opposing forces. With few exceptions, (for example Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi), all dictators drive their nations to economic downfall and over dependency on foreign aid. The wisdom of African strongmen rule in Africa is an utter contradiction with no […]
Graphic Content: South African Artist Ayanda Mabulu Humiliates President Zuma And Late Mandela In New Painting
Artist Ayanda Mabulu Humiliates Zuma: In another bid to show off his hatred towards President Jacob Zuma, controversial artist Ayanda Mabulu has taken his so-called “art” to a place no one would ever have imagined a South African would dare. Once again, the social media is on fire and buzzing over the latest painting of […]
South Africa Remembers Struggle Leader Chris Hani
The “what if” game is popular with the media and the commentariat in South Africa. A popular example is “what if …” South African Communist Party (SACP) leader Chris Hani were still alive. What, for example, would he say about the SACP’s tripartate alliance partner, the African National Congress? What would he say about the […]
South Africa’s Anti-apartheid icon Ahmed Kathrada dies
Anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada, who spent 26 years in jail – many of them alongside Nelson Mandela – for acts of sabotage against South Africa’s white minority government, died in Johannesburg on Tuesday morning at the age of 87. He had been admitted to hospital with blood clotting in his brain earlier this month. Kathrada was born […]
400,000 White South Africans live in shanty towns – The refugees no one wants
In South Africa, White Boers are forced to live in shanty towns because the post-Nelson Mandela era isn’t as “rainbow” as was promised. For over a decade, laws have been in place which deliberately put Whites at a severe disadvantage when looking for work. 400,000 White South Africans now live in poverty, almost one out […]
Stigma ‘Killing’ South Africans Living With HIV: They don’t feel welcome in government clinics
In South Africa, sex workers speak of nurses that laughed at them, dismissed or shamed them for coming to a health clinic Tania has to shout to be heard over music blasting out of a brothel in downtown Durban, South Africa, where dozens of sex workers slouch in chairs under the red glow of the […]
Nelson Mandela’s Grandson Charged With Rape
A grandson of the late Nelson Mandela appeared briefly in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday on a charge of rape. “He made a brief appearance on a charge of the rape of a 15-year-old girl,” Gauteng police spokesperson Brigadier Mashadi Selepe said. He has not yet pleaded to the charge of raping the girl […]
