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CAPE TOWN

Pressure to remove colonial relics grows

This week, the Black People’s National Crisis Committee (BPNCC) said it would intensify protest if activists are not listened to.

  • Lester Kiewit
3 min read
COOKING

Slice of life: I cook for men looking for jobs

‘I prefer to cook for these people for free than to sell the food even. I enjoy it because we use the big, big pots’

  • Sarah Smit
2 min read
LOUIS BOTHA

EFF and ANC at odds over ‘offensive’ statues

The EFF has said the ruling party is too accommodating in its approach to the removal of symbols that glorify colonisation and apartheid.

  • Thuletho Zwane
4 min read
Julius Malema says the statue of Louis Botha outside Parliament ‘represents nothing of what a democratic South Africa stands for’. (David Harrison, M&G)
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EFF and ANC at odds over ‘offensive’ statues

The EFF has said the ruling party is too accommodating in its approach to the removal of symbols that glorify colonisation and apartheid.

  • Thuletho Zwane
4 min read
EMPIRE BOTHA

Black kids don’t cry

Casualty smells like pee and disinfectant. Red lino floors, neon lights, some of them flickering. Daniel is taken behind a powder-blue curtain, brown in some places. He tries to…

  • Lev David
4 min read