By: Meukelani Cele Language was taken during colonial conquest in addition to land. African languages were written off as inferior, while English was promoted as the purported standard of intelligence. Bantu education, a system that kept African students on the periphery and taught them just enough to serve but never enough to lead, solidified this heritage. It was a cage, not instruction. In 1953, the apartheid government implemented Bantu education as a deliberate control m

By Mukelani Cele Women’s Month is a time for celebration, remembrance, and rebirth. It honours the bravery of women who fought for liberties many of us now take for granted, carried families and communities on their shoulders, and marched against injustice. Yet it is also a moment for men to reflect on how they can contribute to women's empowerment. As a man, I write not to instruct but to stand in solidarity with women, especially students, and to affirm a necessary truth: w

By: Nomahlubi Charlie The anti-illegal immigration group March and March Movement, founded in March 2024 by Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, is supported by hundreds of South African citizens and is set to enforce a shutdown on 30 June 2026, calling on undocumented foreigners to leave the country. President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africans must not be misled by the 30 th of June deadline. “No South African must take any action against any person from any of our African sister countri