End cycle of corruption

The topic of corruption and its prevalence in society always elicits passionate responses.

Corruption is a global phenomenon, yet it often hits home at individual level and can have a devastating effect on African communities from the southern parts of the continent, such as South Africa, to the northern parts, such as Ethiopia.
 

Radio Freedom comes home

Radio Freedom was the voice of millions of subjugated South Africans and tuning in brought the latest world news, updates on the liberation struggle, music and songs banned in South Africa and a place for political education.

During the darkest days of apartheid, Radio Freedom, the voice of the oldest liberation movement, the African National Congress, was the revolutionary tool that inspired many South Africans to actively join the fight for the liberation of South Africa.

Government is answering President Ramaphosa's call to end gender-based violence

We should report all allegations of gender-based violence and sexual harassment so they can be investigated by the relevant authorities. Turning a blind eye is not good enough.

Given our history of inequality under apartheid, the importance of having access to justice and protection of human rights cannot be overemphasised. We come from a past where the justice system was not accessible to most South Africans.

Moaners and workers divided

The article by Sandile Ngidi on titled “SA’s failure to communicate” (Sunday Independent, July 3) is disconcerting and seeks to disempower South Africans as architects of our shared vision of a prosperous, democratically rooted nation.

It is a thinly veiled attempt to drag South Africans back to the hollow “big man-failed African state’’  construct where our collective woes, real or imagined, are conveniently transferred to the feet of a single individual or distant elite instead of reflecting on our own agency in the unfolding narrative.

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