Author: Jo Mangaliso Mdhlela

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‘Black is beautiful’ should be a rallying cry for good governance

“Black is beautiful” was a rallying cry of the late 1960s and early 1970s, popularised by rising black liberation struggle activists of the time, and would soon... Read more.
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Virgin Mary: is it fact, or mere fiction weaponised against women?

Does holiness in the eyes of the church depend, among other things, on virginity and subservience – the inclination not to indulgence in sexual activities –... Read more.
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SA yearns for Messiah to lead nation out of valley of dry bones

Waste, barren land is not what South Africans hope for as they think of their future. In the words of the muse, we all, as citizens of this country, look forward... Read more.
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Man up Mr President, and lead us into a promised land

Reuters, an international news agency, recently reported that the French government had embarked on a process of stretching its human thinking capacity beyond unimaginable... Read more.
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What’s left of ANC is a shell of the glorious liberation movement

If you listen to South Africans expressing their concerns about the state of governance – be it in beer halls, shebeens, taverns, business forums, taxi ranks,... Read more.
Editorial

Decades of missteps tell tale of two Cities.

There is a level of plausibility in the assertion that the pangs of politics can sharply be felt through the mundane, the humdrum and the ordinary if we only open... Read more.
Editorial

SA not a failed state but ANC has failed

Government and Justice South Africa is not a failed state, the hard truth is that it is the ANC government that is failing the people of South Africa, and to reach... Read more.
Editorial

Mandela factor of light is dissipating 

Government and Justice  When do we imagine the pain of injustice South Africans will end, from apartheid to democracy – and then in the intervening period of... Read more.
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Remnants of apartheid live on our roads daily

For many years until close to the end of apartheid in the 1990s, people of African descent throughout South Africa were chased and hounded by the apartheid police,... Read more.
News

Daveyton residents join hands to remember fallen Amabutho heroes

Daveyton residents yesterday came in their numbers to pay tribute to members of the slain self-defence unit – Amabutho – who 32 years ago were mowed down by... Read more.