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COLUMN: Cabanac and Gouws, racism’s Distruction Boyz

The pod bros will revive their mission to kill non-racialism and feed it to the pigs

  • Khaya Koko
4 min read
Free at last: The period from1994 to 2008 was an era of rethinking and reimagining South Africa, and constructing practical programmes to dismantle apartheid architecture. Photo: David Turnley/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images

Effective governance crucial for sustaining South Africa’s democracy

The nation is in a far better place than it was when apartheid ended. But what is also true is multiple spheres of government struggle to deal with societal problems and service delivery

  • Umamah Bakharia
6 min read
Wounded people lie in the street on March 21, 1960 in Sharpeville, where security forces massacred 67 protesters. In 1960, police shot 69 black people in the Sharpeville township, south of Johannesburg, during a protest against pass laws, which restricted black people’s movement. (STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

Ubuntu and a human rights culture remains our lodestar

Although much has been achieved in 30 years of democracy, the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre reminds us that we must strive to ensure all people’s rights are achieved

  • Des Erasmus
5 min read