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26.2.2020 06:34 am
A safe place to shoot the breeze – and some hoops
In 2013 co-founders Monwabisi Dlamini and Jacob Tsiane cleaned up a dilapidated basketball facility to create the Soweto Basketball Academy, the leading basketball academy in the country.
In 2013, a group of Soweto locals focused their attention on an old, dilapidated sporting facility in Jabavu, with the hopes of turning the property into a place the community could use. At the time, drug dealers and users infested the area and muggings were common in the popular pedestrian corridor.
Special Feature Family to get closure as MK vets to be buried 41 years after their death
Forensic examination and DNA tests were conducted to distinguish between the skeletal remains of Vuyani Goniwe and Bheki Cyprian Hlatshwayo.
Special Feature Ladysmith Black Mambazo still going strong 60 years later
‘There are no celebrities in the group. We are just humble human beings,’ says a member.
Special Feature Lottery’s promise of toilets leaves a nasty smell
Ten rural schools in Limpopo and 15 in the Eastern Cape are meant to benefit from a R20 million school toilet upgrade project.
Special Feature Anti-apartheid activists laid to rest in peace, 50 years on
The bodies of about 50 executed activists have been found and reburied so far.
Special Feature If you can make it in Congo, you can make it anywhere
Consider having to hustle in a city that has poor infrastructure and almost invisible government, among other issues.
Special Feature SA soldiers in DRC only disturb people who don’t want peace – SA ambassador
Congolese went to the polls on December 30 in the third democratic election for the country since it gained independence from Belgium in 1960.
Special Feature Joburg waste pickers face routine harassment
People don’t appreciate what they do for the city, the pickers complain.
Special Feature Six questions answered about Eskom and IPPs
The struggling utility’s Independent Power Producer programme explained.
Special Feature Cable theft and illegal mining threaten Joburg’s infrastructure
The city came within 30cm of a major disaster as illegal blasting nearly ruptured a fuel pipeline.
Special Feature I was threatened with rape and violence following Malema tweet – Karima Brown
The journalist says the EFF leader is a ‘facist and a bully’ and that the IEC should act against him and his party.
Special Feature South African men are worse off than women – study
International study overturns a few cherished assumptions about gender.
Special Feature Faf du Plessis: the captain steering the Proteas ship
While regaining the number one ranking in Tests is clearly one of Du Plessis’ priorities, the World Cup remains the Holy Grail for the Proteas.
Special Feature Democracy revitalises Barokologadi ba ga Maotoe village
The Barokologadi people had their ancestral land returned to them in 2007 after they were forcefully removed by the apartheid government.
Special Feature Brad Binder – definitely a biker to bet on in future
His consistent upward trajectory of wins is not by chance – he has a multifaceted plan, with winning Moto2 world title the next target.
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