JOHANNESBURG pensioner and restaurant owner Jenny-lee Bot’s monthly water bill unexpectedly spiked from R1 000 to hundreds of thousands of rand, accumulating to nearly R3 million over 2.5 years. The inflated debt placed her home at risk of...
THERE are some days on the South African calendar that just feel very South African and Heritage Day has to be right up there. It’s colourful, it’s loud, it’s filled with food, music, family, friends and usually enough smoke from braai fires to...
ZAINUNNISA “Cissie” Gool was born in 1897 in Cape Town. The daughter of a prominent politician, she joined the Communist Party in 1937 and served her people as an elected Cape Town City Council member. Cissie Gool House is the name given to...
IN DURBAN, flood victims want to know why four years of waiting is still not enough to earn them a permanent home. Foreign nationals want to know where they can sleep without fear. The antiimmigration activists want answers. And...
I WAS looking through old photographs from an iconic Lola Montez Ladies Night recently. In those photos, over a hundred women dressed up, laughed loudly, and celebrated their bodies without fear or hesitation and I looked so young! Next...
“WE NEED much faster and bolder economic reform to turn South Africa’s economy around.” That is a truism very few leaders, economists, analysts and other commentators, would quarrel with. And it has been repeated many times – for decades –...
