Mt Frere villager ‘will vote’ despite slow service delivery
It was a case of dreams half deferred when former President Thabo Mbeki kept his part of his promise and delivered water tanks, gardening tools and pit-latrine toilets to Semeni villagers in Mount Frere two years ago, writes Mayibongwe Maqhina.
Water a daily crisis in remote Malepelepe
Seventeen years after the dawn of democracy, the people of Malepelepe have yet to taste most of the fruits of democracy in the form of development, reports Mayibongwe Maqhina.
Neglected ideals of a struggle hero
If struggle icon Bathandwa Ndondo was alive today he would not be happy with the state of affairs for youth in the town in which he lived and loved, said his mother, reports Sabelo Skiti.
Mantashe ‘a humble man of the people’
ANC boss Gwede Mantashe’s home village of Lower Cala is right behind him – and they want him to remain ANC secretary-general, reports Sabelo Skiti.
Cathcart wages a new fight
Veteran Cathcart activist Kenneth Sigidi is no stranger to uprising and taking on the system, and he has paid a taxing price in pursuit of equal treatment and dignity for his community in the past, reports Sabelo Skiti.
Empowered youth revive their community
With help from its former youth scattered around the country, Middelburg in the heart of the Karoo is making great strides in returning to its former glory. Most small towns like Middelburg are often crippled by the effects of rural-urban drift as the youth leave to seek employment and a better life elsewhere. Instead, young...
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