Every year around June, even the most ignorant of youths who couldn’t care less about the 1976 Soweto Uprisings and the origins of the freedom they now enjoy, see the photo of Mbuyisa Makhubu carrying a dying Hector Pieterson, with his sister running beside them.

Pieterson was one of the first […]

One of the main debates at last week’s World Economic Forum on Africa summit held in Cape Town was on the issue of “rebranding Africa” to make it more attractive to foreign investors looking for business opportunities. Some participants at the forum felt that the African media need to focus […]

This week the South African media – sadly – failed to see through government spin on a speech made by TAC Deputy Chairperson Nkhensani Mavasa to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS).

The spin, which I’ll come to, is the latest tactic in a battle between the Treatment […]