Lucas Ledwaba

@LedwabaStyles

Lucas Ledwaba is a freelance journalist and the author of two books. He is also the founder and editor of Mukurukuru Media.

Stories by: Lucas Ledwaba

Editorial and Analysis

15 March 2019: (From left) Gauteng Premier David Makhura and President Cyril Ramaphosa ride a train from Mabopane to Pretoria station. The train was late and later on also got stuck for about two hours. (Photograph by Deaan Vivier/Netwerk24)

Ramaphosa’s train delay highlights commuter plight

MetroRail commuters experience frustrating delays every day. Will the president’s being stranded recently on a stalled train prompt improvements to the service?

By: Lucas Ledwaba
10 Apr 2019

News

18 October 2018: Part of the wreckage from the plane crash that killed Mozambican president Samora Machel is displayed at the Samora Machel monument in Mbuzini, Mpumalanga.

Samora Machel remembered 32 years after his death

On Thursday mourners assembled to commemorate the former president of Mozambique in the village where he died in a plane crash.

By: Lucas Ledwaba
19 Oct 2018

Features

Legend has it that baobabs were planted upside down by the gods as an expression of their wrath long before the Mapungubwe ancestors set foot on this land. (Photo from Gallo Images)

An afternoon in the ruins of Mapungubwe

A thousand years ago an African civilisation wrought beautiful objects, and traded with Egypt, India and China.

By: Lucas Ledwaba
11 Oct 2018

News

29 August 2018: Samuel Morudu holds up his hand to show his injury.

Dispossession and exploitation in Blouberg

Apartheid-era style dispossession and exploitation still fester in far-flung rural outposts where impoverished people have little choice but to accept their meagre lot.

By: Lucas Ledwaba
18 Sep 2018