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Venda on the boil
On the 5th of August this year, students from the University of Venda marched to the government buildings. They were protesting against...


Ashley’s story
Ashley Forbes. The name is painted on the walls of Wynberg in Cape Town where he grew up. His name is on the lips of his friends and...


A mother speaks
“I greet you with a broken heart.” This was how Cecilia Ngcobo began her story of how her children have been taken from her, by death and...


The Delmas treason trial
The ‘Palace of Justice’ in Pretoria has a special place in the history of South Africa. It was in this building that Nelson Mandela and...


The fruits of apartheid
I will never wear my khaki suit to Pietermaritzburg again. I learned this lesson on my first day there. We asked a young man in Mbali...


Bend the bars
From June 1986 to June 1987, during the first year of the state of emergency, there were at least 3050 women in detention. Over one third...
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