They will most likely punch above their weight in municipalities to gain leverage from the ANC and DA in next month’s local government elections. The post Municipal elections: Smaller parties battle for kingmaker status appeared first on The Mail ...

Ubiquitous internet access will improve social cohesion and economic inclusion The post We owe it to our children to bridge the digital divide appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

Warrenton’s residents live in sewage mess and battle with chronic water delivery problems The post Effluent Warrenton: ‘Our town is worth saving’ appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

Inspired by a school project, 17-year-old Sera Farista has taken a stand against climate change The post Social justice activist on a mission to improve SA’s climate literacy rate appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

Research finds women and girls act as recruits, drug dealers and armed gangsters in the ‘deeply ingrained’ gang culture in the Western Cape The post Cape Town’s desperate female gangster phenomenon appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

Lucia Mnguni remembers her husband Bongani Mnguni, who photographed some of South Africa’s most turbulent events The post The Portfolio: ‘How photographer Bongani Mnguni saw his death coming’ appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

Cynthia Mavuso’s practice was fiercely communal and driven by mentorship. In this edited discussion transcript, Salebo Mlangeni and Thule Mavuso remember ‘CS’ through her photos The post Forgotten spools: Looking through the archive of Cynthia...

A book of photographers with no photographs highlights the ownership battles black lensmen are still battling The post The darkroom process of Black Photo Libraries appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

With most photographers struggling to raise capital to digitise work, those that have managed to do so have mostly used their own resources The post The abysmal state of South Africa’s photo archives appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

Peter Magubane, whose images set him on a collision course with the apartheid government, pays tribute to his colleagues in this foreword to a new book The post Black Photo Libraries: Peter Magubane on the struggle for documentation appeared first o...