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Written by Constance Rahlane Most people know about malaria, but what is it exactly and why have leaders around the world designated 25 April as World Malaria Day? Malaria is one of the world’s most common diseases...
Wrtitten By Thandi Mkhatshwa People witnessed a different kind of grocery shopping on Saturday, 12 April 2008...
Written by Bongekile Mhlanga On Thursday, 10 April, the mayor of Bushbuckridge, Milton Morema, along with Erasmus Makhubela and Lakios Mosoma, were arrested for their involvement in the murder of Motion Mashile and Jeffrey Sedibe...
Written by Constance Rahlane On 21 March, while people celebrated Easter day, Confide Molemo, 21, from Saselani was brutally stabbed at his local tavern. Nicholas Shai came after Molemo, who had had an argument with Shai’s older brother on the previous night...
Written By Constance Rahlane Aleta Chabangu’s yard is scattered with empty mealie bags, and trees chopped in pieces for traditional medicine. An old female trainee sits on a grass mat, wearing red and white clothes and the same colour rounded bracelet...
Written By Thandi Mkhatshwa Street children wander around Acornhoek seeking food and shelter. During the day, these children wait outside Spar and A1 Fisheries hoping to get jobs to buy food to fill their empty stomachs...
Written By Bongekile Mhlanga “He is a good guy. He gave me a chance when nobody would,” said one of Ian Mhaule’s employees. Mhaule knows what it feels like to have little...
Written By Constance Rahlane The sign “Traditional Food and Drinks” welcomes everyone at the entrance of Laisa Mathebula’s traditional restaurant located on the road between Thulamahashe and Acornhoek, close to Jameyane and Mpisi schools. Smoke rises inside the hut kitchen...
Translated by Linky Matsie Be patient, getting married younger than 25 is wrong. You have to work hard for good things. In 1994, when I was in grade seven, I was supposed to chose the school where I would do grade eight to twelve...
Interivew by Thandi Mkhatshwa My earliest memory is playing with my friends in the bushes while looking after my family’s cows. At school I loved math and science. My mother always told me if you want something in life, you have to work really hard...
Written By Constance Rahlane On Saturday 08 March 2008, people flocked into Thulamashe stadium from as far as Phalaborwa, Mkhuhlu and Acornhoek. Some arrived in private cars, others in taxis, and some in bakkies. People brought sick and debilitated family members on mattresses...
Written By Thandi Mkhatshwa “Avuxeni, minghani?” On the morning of 10 March 2008 these words came from the ever-smiling and talkative Sarah McSmith, greeting the grade one learners in their new, colourful classroom...
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Written by Costance Rahlane Being married to someone you love is everyone’s dream, but sometimes it can become a problem when there is a cultural clash...
Photographed and written by Linky Matsie It’s a sunny day and very hot at Plaza in Acornhoek. Old people and young mothers are grouped in a line-up to get the child grant in the small window of A1 Fisheries. The stereo system in front of the store is playing loudly...
Written By Constance Rahlane When I was a little girl I used to watch my late grandmother while she prepared marula beer during the marula season, which lasts from February through March...
My family and friends thought I was joking when I told them I wanted to become a Jehovah’s Witness (better known locally as Watch Tower) at the age of fourteen. Some said I wouldn’t last long because of the strictness of their conduct...
Written By Bongekile Mhlanga The recent revival of the Forum for Black Journalists has started tongues wagging. According to the Mail & Guardian, the forum hosted a meeting in Sandton City, with the president of the African National Congress Jacob Zuma, where white journalists were excluded...
Written By Linky Matsie On 22 February 2008, Thabang Makwetla, the premier of Mpumalanga province, gave his annual State of Province address in Nelspruit. In Thulamahashe people gathered at the Fountain of Living Waters Church to watch the premier on a big screen...
Written By Thandi Mkhatshwa The president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, said in his State of the Nation address 08 February this year that all schools will introduce a new pledge for learners to recite during the daily assembly...
Written By Bongekile Mhlanga While Luinamang Maile was sitting outside her house, on 9 February, she heard a funny noise, but she did not take it seriously. “I was busy looking at the people pass by on the street,” Maile said...
Written By Linky Matsie Parents want the best for their children and they struggle to give their children a better future. They want their children to have a wonderful life, especially when they are no longer around to support them. Education, many parents believe, is the key...
Reported and Narrated by Bongekile Mhlanga Photography By Briget Ganske...
Interview by Linky Matsie My most embarrassing moment: was when my girlfriend was pregnant and her family came to my family to report the pregnancy. My happiest moment: was when my daughter was born. A person who changed my life: is my daughter. I became: a boxer because I wanted to protect myself...
1. When did you become a chief? 25 September 1975 2. How does one become a chief?...
Written by Bongekile Mhlanga Photograph by Briget Ganske When Ian Mhaule started his Anjos Chicken business in 2004, he could not have imagined doing so well that someone would want him dead. He started his business with nothing but five chickens and with no place of his own...
Written By Linky Matsie In 2004, the government announced and began enforcing a new education programme called Outcome Based Education (OBE)...
Written By Thandi Mkhatshwa Many teachers are wondering why their salaries have been missing a few zeros since November last year...
Written By Constance Rahlane On 10 February 2008, the Minister of Health, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, said that the government had subjected all supplied condoms to rigorous testing but also admitted that 10,8 million condoms had to be recalled because of “quality issues.” According to an...
Written by Constance Rahlane On 8 February 2008, people flocked from different directions into Meriam Mogakale Community Centre to watch president Thabo Mbeki’s State of the Nation address on TV...
Written and Produced by Lou Manzo Photography by Briget Ganske and Linky Matsie
Written by Constance Rahlane Evine Lydon Mnisi, 39, was a nduna (supervisor) at Johan and Mariam Wilkens’s farm—the farm where he was born and where he started working in 1982. On 2 February 2008 he died on that same farm when a hippo attacked him. It was his first and last job...
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January 30, 2008 at 8:23pm
Amazwi Dear Friends, Family and Supporters of Amazwi,
Due to the economic crunch and Amazwi’s ongoing difficulties in obtaining reliable funding, we have decided to close all Amazwi projects in 2009. During this time, however, Amazwi’s founder Maggie Messitt who is still based in rural South Africa will be looking for donors to assist in funding journalism scholarships and professional development grants.
It is our hope that during 2009, we will be able to gather a small amount of funding so to assist the Amazwi School of Media Arts 2007 graduates and the Amazwi Villager Journalism Internship Program Participants (2008) with further professional development. This can be in the form of conference, further coursework, or funding a long-term writing project.
Please e-mail Maggie Messitt to learn more about how you can help give further voice to the women of Amazwi.
Read this note in its entirety here: http://amazwi.org/?p=500