During the apartheid era, young South Africans used to secretly flee into exile to be trained in politics, guerrilla tactics, reorganize and consolidate the activities of the liberation struggle, writes Nthambeleni Gabara.
He is young, but looks older than his years; his shoulders seem to carry the weight of the world. His face is drawn and his emotions are hard to read. He looks underweight, worn-out and emotionally detached from his immediate surroundings. At any moment he looks ready to lash out, to break down into tears or to nod off to sleep. Personal hygiene is also lax.
Johannesburg – Almost 40% of young people in Gauteng are unemployed. A factor compounding this challenge is that the youth often don’t know how or where to go to find employment.
Pretoria - Keeping up with the latest trends is key to having the latest gadgets and hottest designer garb. But to be able to afford that, together with gourmet food, one has to be financially savvy, and nobody understands this better than South African youth.
As part of the Nelson Mandela Day activities this year, staff at the Nelson Mandela Museum in Qunu will clean the graves of liberation heroes and other extraordinary South Africans who contributed to the country’s freedom and democracy.
When it comes to protecting Nelson Mandela’s legacy, no-one is more passionate than his grandson, Chief Mandla Mandela (real name Zwelivelile).
Ha-Masia – The construction of a state-of-the-art multi-purpose centre in Ha-Masia village in Limpopo has brought hope to the community.
Pretoria - South Africa’s growing importance in the world as well as its relations with the United States will be one of the highlights of discussions when President Barack Obama visits South Africa later this month.
Tsakane – When the Wonderland Day Care Centre opened in 2000, the centre struggled to provide healthy food for the children it looked after, due to a lack of funding.
Cape Town - The Minister of Communications, Dina Pule, has shared her vision of a broadband future that will include millions of South Africans being connected to the internet via their television sets, learners using e-textbooks and nurses consulting with doctors, who are miles away, to save lives.
Cape Town - Driving into Cape Town on Wednesday, listening to an afternoon talk show host, I was left in no doubt that the big news for some was Canadian pop star Justin Bieber’s first concert in South Africa.
Cape Town – It was their night - a time to be recognised, lauded, waited upon and thanked by a Minister and her Deputy for carrying a burden which children usually don’t: that of raising their siblings after their parents had died.
Cape Town – Steady progress is being made to fix the Further Education and Training (FET) colleges, the Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande said today, outlining several initiatives to improve governance, infrastructure and ultimately the pass rate at FET colleges.
As South Africa commemorates Workers’ Day today, Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant has expressed concern at the slow pace of transformation in South Africa's workplace.
For generations to come, the image of South African citizens - from all walks of life - standing in long voting queues on 27 April 1994 will always warm the hearts of many.
