Welcome to Paballelo, says a brand-new sign as you drive into Upington’s black township. The main road is tarred, and at night, street...

Dear Learn and Teach, In your February/March magazine, you wrote a story about the poet, Mzwakhe Mbuli. I heard that this poet has...

As the doors of South Africa’s prisons open to release the detainees, other doors bang shut. Most detainees — and many others who are...

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The receptionist at the South African Council of Churches (SACC) put down the telephone and greeted us with a smile: “Yebo bantwana bam’i...

If you drive into Soweto on a winter evening, you may not be able to see your way — the air is thick with the smoke of coal fires. The...

On April 24, after spending more than two and a half years in prison and sitting through an 18 month trial, Moses Mayekiso, his brother,...

There are not many universities in the world like Turfloop. While students in many universities study in peace and freedom, the students...

A manager of a great British soccer club once said: “A soccer match isn’t a matter of life or death… it’s much more than that!” That’s...

Water, water, everywhere — but only for the white Transvaal town of Balfour. But, only two kilometres away in Siyathemba, there was not a...