South Africa suffers from a catastrophically poor safety and security situation. Violent confrontational crime has increased for at least a decade; between 2011 and 2021

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It is awkward to defend a politician who is likely corrupt as all get-out, and has been branded a liar by Judge Zondo, but when

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This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 28th January 1932 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai Japan in the late

When we look back on the lead-up to the Second World War it seems obvious to us, with the benefit of hindsight, that the leaders of

Ahead of the State of the Nation Address next week, the president of trade union federation Cosatu, Zingiswa Losi, has called for an end to

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Among the things the tsars, the Bolsheviks, and Vladimir Putin have in common is antipathy to the notion of an independent Ukraine. Until it declared

In Kathu in the Northern Cape on Tuesday last week, residents suffering from poverty, despondency  and the debilitating scourge of helpless dependency, lined up to