Thabi Myeni

In the world’s most un­equal coun­try, a fac­to­ry work­er tries to make ends meet and raise aware­ness about work­ers’ rights.

Over the years, the South African gov­ern­ment has re­mained a strong ally of Pales­tine, sup­port­ing its lib­er­a­tion cause.

Mbe­ki says cur­rent pres­i­dent has failed to de­liv­er on his promis­es to ad­dress pover­ty and curb gov­ern­ment cor­rup­tion.

Top of the pro­tes­tors’ de­mands was the re­moval of Ramaphosa as pres­i­dent due to a grow­ing num­ber of per­son­al scan­dals.

Thou­sands of mourn­ers were in at­ten­dance, in­clud­ing gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials to school­mates of vic­tims and oth­ers.

The South African Po­lice Ser­vice has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion into the in­ci­dent which killed 21 young peo­ple.

High un­em­ploy­ment rate in South Africa has led to lo­cals of­ten blam­ing for­eign­ers for tak­ing jobs ‘meant’ for them.

Pres­i­dent Ramaphosa is at the cen­tre of an in­ter­na­tion­al scan­dal in­volv­ing the theft of $4m from his game farm.

SA politi­cians have been re­act­ing to the ar­rest of the Gup­tas, who are en­meshed in a lon­grun­ning cor­rup­tion scan­dal.

EFF ral­lied with sur­vivors of Marikana shoot­ing in Jo­han­nes­burg where a law­suit against the pres­i­dent is be­ing heard.