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Africa mourns Jesse Jackson, a global change agent

Today at 00:36 AM, via Mail & Guardian

A gregarious man with a mission, a complex personality, hard-nosed politician, he strode from the pulpits of politics to the precipice of the Oval Office, paving the way along Pennsylvania Avenue for Barack Obama

Championing a visa-free Africa

Today at 00:29 AM, via Mail & Guardian

The liberalisation loosens the colonial grip on African life. It allows states to maintain sovereignty while refusing to let colonial lines dictate connectivity

The Sona love letter to SA’s agric sector

Today at 00:29 AM, via Mail & Guardian

We are working to expand the sector and ensure we provide high-quality products to new markets. It remains key that the sector’s “knowledge infrastructure” is up to date and, importantly, that new entrant farmers are supported

State inaction normalises water poverty

Today at 00:25 AM, via Mail & Guardian

In Limpopo’s villages, being waterless has become so normalised that people seem to have accepted that this is just how life should be — spending hours a day queuing to fill a 200 litre drum

Land as Mother: The sacred politics of food

Today at 00:25 AM, via Mail & Guardian

Rebuilding a just system recognises that enduring solutions might lie in combining modern tools with older ethical frameworks grounded in reciprocity and collective responsibility

Billions needed to sort water crisis

Today at 00:25 AM, via Mail & Guardian

Joburg’s Dada Morero assured residents that the city would not implement water-shedding in the same way South Africans endured load-shedding

SA’s anti-corruption needle stalled

Today at 00:20 AM, via Mail & Guardian

Over a decade after the Glenister judgments, it remains an indictment of the so-called post-state capture moment that we are not further along as a country in settling the institutional architecture required to reverse endemic corruption

Climate disasters: Time to return to basics

Today at 00:20 AM, via Mail & Guardian

It is critical that municipalities prioritise the routine maintenance and upgrading of stormwater systems, bridges, roads and essential services

Sibiya flays police boss Masemola

Today at 00:20 AM, via Mail & Guardian

The suspended deputy commissioner said infighting in the police service was a result of the national commissioner’s poor leadership

Queen of comedy in the Mother City

Today at 00:13 AM, via Mail & Guardian

Celeste Ntuli turns personal roasts, faith and fearless storytelling into a must-see comedy experience as she takes her hit show to Cape Town

Layers of meaning

Today at 00:11 AM, via Mail & Guardian

Exploring shared struggles and the power of love, Hank Willis Thomas’s latest exhibition layers American and South African histories into thought-provoking artworks

The Bold and the Xhosa

Today at 00:07 AM, via Mail & Guardian

Executive producer, Siphosethu Tshapu strikes gold with high-stakes telenovela Inimba

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