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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 24, 2026
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- Jul 9, 2026
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Poor man with nothing but money (opens the original)
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At a top restaurant in Sandton, a man - supposedly successful, Black, expensive watch, German car parked outside with a driver - threatened to shoot and kill women. He did not like being told no. So he reached for the language he knows: a gun. "I will shoot you. I will kill you." Fortunately this was not in front of waiters, in front of other diners, in the most expensive square kilometre in Africa. This is not an isolated incident. This is a type. And we must name the type honestly. He is the s
Dressing FNB Stadium in Soweto robes (opens the original)
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I learned that the geography of the southern suburbs has been redrawn. Perhaps I am behind and need to update myself on demarcation. But we need factual accuracy and correctness. And some of us are angry about it. Let me repeat that for the commentators, the government press releases, the Springbok PR machine and the Fifa nostalgists: FNB Stadium, Soccer City, The Calabash — call it what you want — is not in Soweto. Officially and geographically, it is located in Nasrec, bordering the Soweto are
Citizens’ two faces: humanity in public; greed in private (opens the original)
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We need a new language to put words to something many South Africans have seen but could not name. The privileged — both black and white — have said their “prayers”, raising their hands and voices to the heavens to save undocumented immigrants. Undocumented migrants have fled the communities they lived in for years only to be trapped in deportation stations. They were “going home”. The responses from the anti-illegal immigrants movements were immediate: How is it normal for an undocumented perso
The truth, the missing link in the parachute journalism drop (opens the original)
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We have to re-examine the role and responsibilities of African media coverage of the recent 30 June protest marches in South Africa. We have seen this happen before, in the 1980s. South Africa had one of the biggest concentrations of foreign correspondents. It was a turbulent time. When journalists "parachute in" to cover a story, they arrive with luggage: deadlines, editors, pre-written frames and often very little history. That is exactly what we have seen some senior Nigerian and Zimbabwean j
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