REMEMBERING MADIBA
Category: Archive
The first President of South Africa, to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, died on December 5, 2013. It’s been five years since Madiba’s death, and since that day our political discourse, both in private and public, seems to have gone downhill. But his legacy is too precious to let slip, and as the world celebrates the 100 years since his birth, his eldest daughter has shared some special memories of him, on
It’s a testament to how far we’ve come as a country that many doctors now say they’d rather have HIV than Diabetes, because HIV is an easier chronic disease to manage. Today, South Africa has the biggest HIV treatment programme in the world, with millions of people living healthy, long lives, by simply taking one pill a day. Just two decades ago, the picture was very different. People were stigmatised, government was in denial, and
If you Google ‘Manenberg’, you can be guaranteed that nothing good about the suburb will pop up. It’s notorious for many social ills, as are many areas on the ‘Cape Flats’. A former editor of mine suggested we move away from the use of the phrase ‘Cape Flats’. Does it not perpetuate the stereotype, thrust upon residents by the apartheid government? Or is it something that residents have taken ownership of? Taking back, and owning
