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The race for profits complicated racial identity in South Africa

Phakamisa Ndzamela by Phakamisa Ndzamela 22 October 202122 October 2021

There are Afrikaners with West African ancestry, blue-eyed amaMpondo, English amaZulu

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Modern slavery: The beast of our time

Reader Blog by Reader Blog 6 December 20166 December 2016

Since last week, popular SABC1 soapie Generations The Legacy has been running a storyline on human trafficking. The characters of Xolelwa and Lesedi attended a party where Lesedi’s drink was spiked and the two were then taken to Cape Town, where they were held with other young women and used as sex slaves. I am […]

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Take drugs? Don’t help the piranhas

Sarah Britten by Sarah Britten 25 December 201412 January 2015

I’ve never taken drugs. Well, not the illegal kind anyway. I prefer to walk up to the counter at the pharmacy, recite my request and wait mournfully to be told that Discovery isn’t paying. As a kid in primary school, I regularly took overdoses of my asthma pills (Microfillin; active ingredient theophylline) in order to […]

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