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Watch – Tiger terror

Students of the Media24 Journalism Academy asked an expert what you should do if you come across a wild animal in the urban jungle.

Watch – Comic genius

American comedian Pablo Francisco on the oil spill, his favourite South African comedian and why it pays to be funny.

Why the masses love Malema

Andile Mngxitama 62 comments | 6646 views

Andile Mngxitama

JULIUS Malema is our most exciting politician. He provokes wild passion. The snobbish black middle class is embarrassed by him; black pundits are annoyed and whites are terrified. But the black masses love him wildly.

The Columnists

Blacks in bondage

TopStories 64 comments | 9634 views

Andile Mngxitama

Venterdorp is South Africa. If we want to understand South Africa, then we need to look more closely at Ventersdorp, a town that springs up at you in the heart of the North West maize belt.

Do you still have the mind of a slave

Andile Mngxitama 16 comments | 825 views

Andile Mngxitama

THE moralistic condemnations that follow each episode of negrophobia – mistakenly named xenophobia – needs to make way for explanation.

Soldiers of delusion

Andile Mngxitama 309 views

ANDILE MNGXITAMA

Pyrrhic. I like this word. I’m not sure how it is pronounced but I like it. When I first saw this word I couldn’t help but think about fire. I suppose I must have associated it with “pyre”.

Reconciliation without justice

Andile Mngxitama 1505 views

ANDILE MNGXITAMA

How do we explain the strange behaviour of a black university head who is hired to transform a racist institution but ends up inviting back white students accused of racist behaviour?

Unite in igniting opportunity from crisis

Andile Mngxitama 165 views

SO our first-year university students are a bunch of illiterates! A new report shows that our universities have become glorified high schools because our students can't read.

Your favourite columnists

The BC evolution

Andile Mngxitama 7 comments | 1290 views

THE annual orgy of commemorating Steve Biko is upon us again. Parties, organisations and individuals who claim to uphold his philosophy and legacy will bombard us with his wisdom. But after September some of these “friends” of Biko will return to their lethargic existence, either helping the ANC to run the country in the interest of a minority or passing time in the margins, away from the dirty and difficult arena of real politics.

inside city press

Friendship forged under fire

James Brabazon speaks about his memoir, My Friend the Mercenary.
Goodbye to Nafhold

The Nafcoc executive council has decided to break up its investment holding arm, Nafhold.
OBE gets overhauled

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga gives the A,B,C of why OBE had to go.
Chit chat: Hlubi Mboya

Hlubi Mboya on her latest film, Isidingo and what it means to be one of the faces at the forefront of 46664.
Journey from fear

They hitched a lift on a truck and travelled 1 400km, fleeing a possible outbreak of xenophobic violence.
Malema linked to dirty firm

Julius Malema is a business partner of the man at the helm of Thermopower Technologies.
Knockout for TV boxing

Lights could go out on boxing broadcasting at the SABC after it spent over R30 million during the soccer World Cup.
Taboo, or not taboo – that is the question

Is it taboo to portray former president Nelson Mandela in a negative light?

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