Frustrated Xolani and Zolani township residents packed Tantyi Hall on Friday to address crime. A series of stabbings, rapes and robberies in the area over the last weekend have left the residents on edge.
Author: Busisiwe Hoho
The inscription on the headstone reads: “Our beloved David Joseph Webster. Born 19 December 1945. Assassinated 1 May 1989. Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.” Webster was an academic, anthropologist, activist, humanitarian and Rhodes graduate.
“It is ironic to celebrate Human Rights Day while ANC Youth League President Julius Malema has been found guilty of hate speech,” said Human Rights Commissioner Pregs Govender at the official launch of Rhodes University’s third annual Human Rights Week on Monday evening.
“I never refer to myself as being the dominee,” says Charlene van der Walt. “There is no room for that stuff, if you really want to engage with people.”
Dr Fatima Meer, mother, wife, and sister, activist and academic passed away at St Augustines Hospital in Durban on 12 March at age 82, two weeks after suffering from a stroke.
Wor shi p is a time when we pay deep, sincere, awesome respect to the one who created us. In Matthew 22:37 Jesus says “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with your entire mind.”
The Sharpeville 69 were born in South Africa into a system of racism and oppression. For much of their lives, they were made to endure harsh treatment at the hands of cruel regime, bent on demoting the group to a life where they were to accept the role of belonging to an inferior, sub-human class of people based on the colour of their skin.
As Christians we all agree that our children are a gift from the Lord and that our primary responsibility as parents is to train them in the ways of the Lord. Above everything else in this life we are to teach our children the Word of God, not just to put it to memory but to understand it and love it and live it.
1948 a significant year for South Africa and for Israel. Either history books or experience reminds us that this year heralded the introduction of legislative apartheid in our country. But fewer recall that, 7000km north of us, 1948 was the year of Yom Ha’atzmaut, Independence Day, marking the declaration of the independent state of Israel.
On 15 March 1985 symbolics. com registered the world’s very first ever dot com suffix. So? Well, it has been 25 years since, on Monday 15 March. There are now 80-million odd such dot coms and counting. Plus millions of .orgs, .nets, .govs, etc. We know how much the internet and the World Wide Web (not to be confused with each other), have changed our lives.