South African designer revives family history in new collection
THANDO Ntuli, a young designer who just unveiled her new collection at South African Fashion Week, hopes her clothes will
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Police hunt gunmen who fired 137 rounds in Soweto bar shooting
NQOBILE DLUDLA POLICE are hunting for five attackers who burst into a bar in Soweto, South Africa and killed 15
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Gunmen kill 19 people in ‘random’ bar shootings in South Africa
NQOBILE DLUDLA and TIM COCKS GUNMEN killed 19 people in two apparently random shootings within hours of each other at
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South Africa’s epochal 1976 uprisings shouldn’t be reduced to a symbolic ritual
ON the morning of Wednesday, 16 June 1976, young students from schools across Soweto set out on a march through
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Soweto’s young cyclists show their mettle
THE Soweto Cycling Academy was started to get children on bikes. Now its young members are beginning to compete in South Africa’s top races, with an eye on a busy 2022 calendar.
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The “Train of Hope” driving vaccination to underserved communities
JAMAINE KRIGE IT’S a chilly morning at Dube train station in Soweto, Johannesburg and the cold seems to be made
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Three days of violent protests
THREE days of violence started in some parts of KwaZulu-Natal and spread to Johannesburg, Soweto in Gauteng, Limpopo and Mpumalanga.
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Operation Dudula pushes ahead with hateful politics
JAN BORNMAN ON the 45th anniversary of the June 16 uprising in Soweto, dozens of people armed with sjamboks and
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Mismanagement crippled SA basketball
LEE NXUMALO BASKETBALL, once the fastest-growing sport in South Africa, now hardly has recognisable leagues or talents. A group of
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Snakes and sewage: Housing troubles grow in S. Africa’s Soweto
KIM HARRISBERG CRUMBLING walls, sewage leaking into homes, dangerous loose wires – and sometimes, snakes. These are some of the
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