The Mail and Guardian has become the latest victim of the declining South African and global media industry — but insiders say the seeds of its demise were sown some time ago.

The whiff of VBS corruption clings to Floyd Shivambu like the odour of a tampered cricket ball, raising eyebrows every time he steps up to the political crease. It is the unspoken sledging from the opposition benches: ‘Pay back the money!

Both Chris Hani and Steve Biko echoed Frantz Fanon’s warning that unless the fight against oppression is a fundamental one, decolonisation will just mean ‘the transfer into native hands of those unfair advantages which are the legacy of the colonial period’. Part 2 in a two-part series.

Many of us like to try to understand a person we are talking to, a person we have just met. We want to know more about them. We often want to place them in our context. There is a useful phrase to describe all of this. It’s often referred to as ‘class’.

All SA’s higher education institutions, including public universities and private higher education institutions, participate in the same quality assurance regime and are held to the same quality standards.

An estimated 11 million tonnes of plastics leak into aquatic ecosystems each year, while around 13 million tonnes of plastics accumulate in the soil annually.

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Despite a large deficit, the South African Rugby Union is optimistic about the short-to-medium-term future.

The South African Weather Service has warned of damaging winds, cold, light rain and snow in parts of the Eastern Cape and Western Cape.

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