Jul 09 2024
By Katlego Ramantsima and Refiloe Joala
South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world. To this day, it has shocking levels of poverty and unemployment. This inequality is starkly apparent in the country’s pervasive Apartheid landscape, where overcrowded informal settlements and townships lie next to leafy suburbs and sprawling, almost exclusively White-owned, large-scale commercial farms.
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Jul 08 2024
A significant protest by land rights activists went by without much fanfare in Polokwane on the night of June 18. While the eyes, ears and minds of South Africans were focused on the outcomes of the government of national unity talks, a group of activists staged a peaceful night vigil at the Limpopo premier’s offices.
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Jul 08 2024
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Zulu King Misuzulu Sinqobile kaZwelithini invited amakhosi to an imbizo last month to discuss “the serious threats of survival of the Ingonyama Trust amid continued efforts to take away land under control of amakhosi, who hold this land in trust on behalf of the Zulu people”.
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May 28 2024
By Banele Ginindza
South Africa is facing a difficult choice of braving load shedding or living up to its commitments to the Paris Agreement and its own Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) as it has to continually relax the emission standards for petrochemical giant Sasol and power utility Eskom.
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May 28 2024
King Misuzulu KaZwelithini is threatening to take the government to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of trying to curtail his power through weakening traditional leadership with the intention of defrauding the Zulus of their land.
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