Articles
The best news of the year
It’s been a bad year so far. The government is on the attack like never before. In February they banned 17 organisations. They have...
A day at the beach
There are not many things nicer in this life than lying on a warm beach with your eyes closed and listening to the sea whispering in your...
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...
Forward with the women’s struggle
They came, singing and clapping, from all over South Africa — and together they made history. It was the first time that the women of...
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...
Free Harry Gwala
A very sick old man is lying in a cold cell in Pietermaritzburg’s new prison. Doctors have told him and his family that there is nothing...
Letters from readers 1988 No 3
Dear Learn and Teach, I am a girl of 19 doing standard 9. I would like to thank all the people and organisations who are fighting to save...
The lion of the Lowveld
The people of Matsulu, a village next to the Kruger National Park, can sometimes hear the lions roaring at night — but do they know that...
The Olympics of the oppressed
Later this year a flame will be lit in Seoul, South Korea. The flame will mark the beginning of the Olympic Games. It is a time when...
Our kind of jazz
Who is the father of our kind of jazz? Why, Bra Zacks Nkosi, of course. He was the man who could make a saxophone talk. He did not have a...
