Ebrahim Fakir's pre-election analysis – Part 2

Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa's (EISA) manager of the political parties and parliamentary support programme Ebrahim Fakir provides Polity's Motshabi Hoaeane with a second... 

Value-based philanthropy the new bottom-line for business – survey

While some companies still primarily focus on financial value as the benchmark against which to gauge their performance, more companies have realised the importance of moving beyond the paradigm of... 

SA should jealously guard judicious discretion – Pikoli

The tendency of South Africans to act as if corruption was normal was a serious cause for concern, former National Prosecuting Authority head Vusi Pikoli said on Friday. He was addressing delegates... 

Nelson Mandela: becoming a freedom fighter

‘I was not born with a hunger to be free,’ Nelson Mandela writes in his autobiography.  He immediately explains  ‘I was born free-free in every way that I could know.  Free to run in the fields... 

Mandela on trial – Its meaning for us today

When Mandela was captured in 1962 the police did not know that he had been overseas for military training and that he was Commander in Chief of the recently formed Umkhonto we Sizwe, Spear of the... 

Mamelodi for a month – A white middle-class family’s foray into the shack settlements of Mamelodi

South African couple Julian and Ena Hewitt, along with their daughters Julia, 4, and Jessica, 2, left their life in Wapadrand, Pretoria, and moved to the Phomolong informal settlement in Mamelodi... 

Photography as a form of visual activism

Visual artist Zanele Muholi won the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression art award in London on March, 21, 2013. Shortlisted alongside her were Russian punk group Pussy Riot, Saudi-Arabian...