Tuesday, 6 June 2023
Tebadi Mmotla was born and raised in Limpopo. She is a Wits graduate and reports on a range of topics, including higher education, mining and health.
Shamed by 2020 exposés of forced sterilisations at public hospitals, the health department vowed to act – but victims still await justice. Also, is the Saxonwold Shebeen open for a drink?
Abortion has been legal since 1997 in South Africa. Despite this, more and more women are risking their lives by going to unlicensed abortionists. We ask why.
Amazon workers’ right to unionise is a significant victory for them as well as the Left in the United States. Also, liberation theology helped end apartheid but what is its role today?
Indian activist-doctor Yogesh Jain believes inequality in public healthcare is a global crisis. And, we look at religion’s role in instilling outdated attitudes towards sexuality.
The struggle continues for Cape West Coast small-scale fishers after their court victory against seismic blasting. And, why is Yemen’s bloody seven-year-long war largely forgotten?
Amnesty International explains why Israel is an apartheid state; an iconic Soweto cinema makes way for a mall; and we revisit the jazz haven, Club Pelican.
We look at solutions as students tell us about their struggle to afford university as the academic year begins. And, we visit the first nightclub opened in Soweto with veteran jazzman Khaya Mahlangu.
We visit Gatvol, where Christmas is set to be bleak. As in many places, politicians’ promises to shack dwellers have come to nothing. Also, our best and our bloopers of 2021.
Even with enough food, South Africa still has a high level of food insecurity. We talk to people who are fixing the problem. Also, historian Tom Lodge assesses the SACP’s influence.
Only 20% of people in South Africa are vaccinated. We visit a mine that achieved 80%. Also, Imraan Coovadia on poison as a political weapon and why the farmer protests in India still matter.
An activist paid the ultimate price for resisting a mine digging for profit on her doorstep, but her neighbours fight on. Meanwhile, South Africa’s Left is getting the climate emergency wrong.
The Marikana massacre and the Life Esidimeni scandal keep reminding us that justice is an easy word to use, but difficult to get. We talk to a few South Africans who won’t give up.
Esteemed South African poet and novelist Mandla Langa discusses his work, what’s wrong with the ANC and what looting we should be looking at. Also, why Latin America is swinging Left.
Nearly two-thirds of South Africans between 15 and 24 are jobless: how basic income grants can save young lives. Also, a powerful documentary takes us back to the 1976 Soweto uprising.
Despite South Africa’s progressive Constitution guaranteeing the rights of all, no matter sexual orientation, LGBTQIA+ people still experience the horrors of homophobia and bigotry.
A young Palestinian shares what South Africa has taught him about resisting Israeli occupation and we look into the medical malpractice particularly affecting impoverished Black women.
A year on, Covid-19 has affected us in so many profound ways. Yet, parts of normal life have continued. Some people still fall in and out of love. We tell their stories.
In a world divided by vaccine apartheid, can the Covid-19 pandemic be beaten? From Soweto Soul to militant Afro-rock: The two 1970s albums that changed South Africa’s musical landscape.
A convicted apartheid assassin is released on parole and subsidised by the State Security Agency. A victim’s son speaks out. And, what the protests by Indian farmers mean.
Fatima Hassan, founder of the non-governmental organisation sounding the alarm bells over vaccine procurement issues, speaks about pricing, transparency and rollout strategies.
Health workers and undertakers in Gauteng are now feeling the strain of the second wave of Covid-19 as the numbers of patients entering hospitals and those dying keep rising.