Lucas Ledwaba GOING into battle with an opponent you have never lost to could lead to complacency – with tragic consequences. But Baroka FC coach Wedson Nyirenda is not taking chances going into Saturday’s Limpopo derby against cross town rivals Polokwane City. The Ga-Mphahlele side have never lost to their city rivals Polokwane City since…
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HEADLINE: With Strings Attached, paying tribute to Malombo music icon, Dr Nchipi Philip Tabane who was born on 24 March 1934. THE Playhouse, Durban, August 2006—QUICKLY and quietly, standing at the door to the main dressing room backstage, I cast my eyes left down the long passage, then right and…
“Musicological studies show that contemporary jazz artists have adopted and adapted kiba poetry into jazz music, which resulted into classics of all times. Intensive studies were conducted on such poetic kiba-influenced jazz, but the primary source remains a grey area.”
“The government has failed in implementing land distribution [restitution]…because the ‘owners’ of that land, the white people, when the government wants to buy property or farms from them they increase the prices when they themselves got it for nothing.” Andrew Mlangeni
At the heart of all the wars, battles, massacres and skirmishes in our country in the last 350 years or so, lies one major issue, the land, ilizwe, umhlaba, lefatshe, iphasi, mabu.
The thought of a language becoming extinct is just too tragic, and its implications go way beyond the mere loss of the spoken word.
THE hour that delegates at the ANC’s 54th national conference spent singing and chanting while awaiting the results of the leadership contest must have been the longest and most tense for those vying for positions in the party’s top six. After the ANC alliance partners had delivered their messages of support to the more than…
“There was already water dripping from underneath the coffin because the body had been placed in the house for so long.”
“The land is ours. It is part of us. When we were born we found our parents working the land. It’s in our blood.”
‘Those who owned the mines, I hate them, I hate them very much.’
‘Garang is destroying us here. We are burying people every week. They are dying poor. They have nothing. Their families have nothing to show for all the years they worked on the mines.’
Depressed and fearful retrenched mine workers are returning their cars to the dealerships. Businesses are shutting down. Rental accommodation units are under lock and key. Taxis are standing idle with no passengers to carry. Hawkers have put away their wares and goods. A bleak festive season and uncertain future beckons. There is fear, panic and…
