Saturday, 1 April 2023
Sazi Bongwe, born and raised in Johannesburg, is an 18-year-old incoming student at Harvard University. He aims to position himself at the forefront of youth-led social discourse, primarily by founding Ukuzibuza.com – an online platform home to youth commentary, ideas and expression. Sazi is intersted in re-imagining solutions to socio-economic inequality across South Africa and the Global South, and interrogating how media can contribute to the pursuit of justice.
Confidence in the public healthcare system is at an all-time low – often for good reason. Surgeons for Little Lives shows us how simple interventions lead to dramatic improvements.
In their second book, a collection of short stories, the author takes from their own life and losses and aspires to create a new world that is better for all its diverse inhabitants.
The election of a new leadership was a hotly contested affair that overshadowed workers’ issues, but the leaders claim that this was democracy at work.
Meet some of the people who have held the steps of the apex court for more than three weeks, sleeping out in the cold to demand reparations for apartheid crimes.
The student convicted of spending financial aid money that wasn’t hers has been granted leave to appeal her five-year prison sentence. It is a step towards justice, dignity and humanity.
Activists demanding reparations for apartheid crimes finally met with the justice minister, who informed them that the TRC list of beneficiaries will not be expanded.
Some are disillusioned, others hopeful. Some vote, others don’t. South Africa’s youth reflect on what it means to be born free this Freedom Day.
More than three-quarters of workers at South African Airways Technical have been retrenched, to devastating effect. The few who kept their jobs now have to fight for better conditions.
There is a backlog of cases in the courts and the police remain ill-equipped to deal with reports or the victims of assault.
As fuel prices continue to rise, so too does the price of paraffin. People who are most dependent on it, especially in shack settlements, have to pay more for that which kills them.
The British artist’s latest album reflects the self-awareness that he has developed in the past decade, as he refuses to succumb to despair on Seventeen Going Under.
This year’s Eugene Saldanha fellow, Naledi Sikhakhane, aims to tell the stories of those who are not seen or heard because she knows what it feels like to be that person.