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Three years ago, 81% of Grade 4 learners in South Africa could not read for meaning. This week the Nal’ibali Trust won the prestigious Library of Congress International Literacy Prize, taking home a cool $50 000 cash prize while at it. More than a decade, the NGO has been at the forefront of initiatives aimed … NGOs: Society’s unsung helping hand Read More »

To many South Africans Themba Lukhele Nzimande is an audacious podcaster known for streetwise monologues, fashionable sense of dress and a criminal past. A self-made celebrity with a solid social media presence, he is often seen rubbing shoulders with the cream of the country’s socialites and kitted out in high-end apparel but now the man … LGE2026: Big faces instead of big ideas Read More »

Prowl the etherspace long enough and you may discover that South Africa could be passed off as Ghana, Zanzibar or some cannibalistic vodoo enclave in just another woebegone region somewhere in the ‘country’ of Africa. Indeed, you’d be quite surprised to find just how closed-off and insulated much of the developed world is from the … The world gasps as SA pilots work their magic Read More »

From boots on the ground, to potholes being suddenly filled could only mean one thing: the political silly season has been revved up to high gear. Pretty soon the knocks will come rapping on the door and it won’t be Jehovah’s Witnesses but Fighters, Cadres, sometimes an obscure figure you’ve never even heard of. The … The people tell the big shots to “go away” as the LGEs loom Read…

A cursory glance at the general opinions about SA’s public health care facilities and you begin to see them as places where people don’t necessarily go to find help – but to die. The video evidence on social media is as ubiquitous as it shocking, probably worrisome when you’re of a certain income bracket. From … Views from a public hospital ward: Part 1 Read More »

In what can only be described as a blindside nobody ever saw coming, this week Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma had a much-publicised meeting with Kallie Kriel. The feisty March and March leader – forthright and brutal with journalists and anyone else who takes umbrage at her unwavering anti-immigration stance – appeared cordial and even spoke Afrikaans next … Afriforum and March and March meet. Socials erupt. Read More »