Former ANC NEC member and ex Speaker of the National Assembly Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. The Azanian | Analysis By Mpho Dube, Editor in Chief of The Azanian When Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula sat down with Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi on the African Renaissance Podcast days after the Constitutional Court’s ruling, she didn’t just confirm what the opposition has alleged since December 2022. She gave the ANC’s critics a direct quote from inside the room: the party used its majority to kill th

A child cannot wait.’ Human rights expert warns that postponements and missing documents turn legal process into prolonged suffering for young victims A young girl covers her face in frustration, overwhelmed and seeking a moment to herself. She has already told her story once. Now she must wait to tell it again. And again. And again. Each time, a child victim is asked to go back, to explain, to relive what she has already tried to survive. Not because the case is moving forwa

The Azanian_ family grows. Welcome Senior Magistrate Tshepho Thedi, Botswana Court. LLM Multi-Disciplinary Human Rights. She speaks for the silenced. She writes for the children. She joins us to shake consciences and shift systems. We are The Azanian. We multiply. — Mpho Dube, President By Tshepho Thedi_ LLM Multi-Disciplinary Human Rights Senior Magistrate, Botswana Court I have sat on the bench. I have heard the testimonies. I have watched children who should be drawi

OPINION | By Mpho Dube, President of The Azanian | 27 April 2026 South Africa is a paradox with a pulse. We are a country that sleeps on gold but dreams in hunger. We are a nation that owns the mine but rents the shovel. We are rich in minerals and poor in memory. The question after 32 years of democracy is brutal in its simplicity: What is wrong with us? We have the platinum that makes Rolex tick, but we cannot make a watch. We have the iron that builds German cars, but our

The marriage between the ANC and SACP has been over for years, and what's left is just a facade, a Potemkin village of an alliance that's more about maintaining power than serving the people. By Mpho Dube, Editor-in-Chief, The Azanian Truth. Fearless. Unfiltered. The recent announcement by the South African Communist Party (SACP) to contest the local elections alone has sent shockwaves through the country's political landscape, exposing the crumbling foundations of a relation

ANCYL Provincial Secretary Phineas Sebola is newly elected ANC Limpopo PEC member who writes in his personal capacity. By Phineas Sebola In the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx remarks that “Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the