Veli Mbele cannot name one title by any of the many black luminaries he mentions in “Slikour’s not wrong” (May 6) that bears a direct resemblance to Slikour’s derogatory insult.
The majority of people are marginalised by the party they have voted for and put into power.
Stephen Bin Rambau
The problem of unemployment in South Africa is made worse when small businesses are not supported.
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Thandi,* who did not want to be identified in this interview, was a soldier in the ANC underground. Now she is a lance corporal in the SANDF. She spoke to Lucas Ledwaba
Mme Leisa was a nurse in Soweto and a member of the ANC Women’s League who ran a safe house for comrades on the run from security police. Now 97, she spoke to Lucas Ledwaba
Professor Renfrew Christie (63) spent two of the seven years of his imprisonment in the early 1980s locked up in a cell next to death row at Pretoria Central Prison.
Sebenzile Mzini, 51, was the first secretary of the newly unbanned ANC Youth League’s Border region in 1991 under then president, the late Peter Mokaba. He told his story to Sabelo Skiti
Mpho Biko (18) has just matriculated from Pretoria Girls High and plans to study architecture. She is the great-niece of the late Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko. She told her story to Silindile Nyathikazi
Thandi Modise
You raised your voice when it was dangerous and unfashionable to do so.
Malesela Chuene
In the run-up to the 2009 general election, one of the ANC’s top-five priorities was invigorating rural development.
Reagen Allen
I’ve recently noted a friend’s Facebook status. It read: “Whenever someone says ‘life is hard’, I am always tempted to ask ‘compared to what?!’”
City Press is giving away five copies of Mandela – The Authorized Portrait and A Prisoner in the Garden.