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The unfinished business of freedom
Fifty years after Soweto, children in this country can still be denied access to school because of an unfinished bridge, inadequate or poorly built classrooms and public funds diverted into corrupt hands
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M&G 12 June 2026
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be silent
Her journey into theatre began far from the professional stages of Newtown.
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M&G 12 June 2026
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The Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts and the hidden power of life cover
Life insurance is often misunderstood, seen as a middle-class product to replace income after death. But for the wealthy, life cover isn’t about death. It's about design.
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M&G 12 June 2026
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We call them youth; they were children
Every June we return to the children of 1976.
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M&G 12 June 2026
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Living Forward: Ensuring continuity when it matters most
Planning for the future is often framed around growth, building wealth, expanding businesses, and securing financial independence. Far less attention is given to what happens next: how that wealth is preserved, structured and ultimately transferred.
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M&G 12 June 2026
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A generation pushed against the wall
The onus was on young people to ensure a bright future for themselves or forever become hewers of wood and fetchers of water
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M&G 12 June 2026
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What the Soweto Uprising still demands of us
Historian Noor Nieftagodien warns that annual celebrations have replaced genuine reckoning with the causes, character and unfinished consequences of June 16th
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M&G 12 June 2026
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The Arc betrayed
The 1975 and 1976 generation’s grandchildren are educated, mobile, fluent and comfortable. They are also alienated, anxious and disconnected from the history that made their comfort possible
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M&G 12 June 2026
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This isn't what Hector died for
Five decades after the watershed 1976 youth uprisings, the country is still pondering ways of repaying the huge debt of gratitude it owes the brave learners who took on the might of apartheid — unarmed but unafraid.
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M&G 12 June 2026
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Meaning of June 16 lost
Fifty years later and 32 years since liberation, we have a situation that can be described only as a betrayal of our youngsters
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M&G 12 June 2026
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Pharrell brings a splash of Saint-Tropez to SA
Just in time for Durban July season, Moët & Chandon is turning up the sparkle with the South African launch of Moët & Chandon Ice Impérial by Pharrell Williams.
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M&G 12 June 2026
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ANC factions clash over mayoral job
The group perceived to be led by Loyiso Masuku has warned Dada Morero’s camp against even thinking about appealing the process
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M&G 12 June 2026
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It is our turn to courageously repay the debt we owe to June 16 champions
The greatest debt we owe for our democracy and the freedom we enjoy, though not yet complete, is owed to the children and young people of this country.
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M&G 12 June 2026
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The one call I was not ready for
In South Africa, funeral cover often pays out quickly, but accessing estate funds and finalising paperwork can still take months.
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M&G 12 June 2026
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What my uncle's dompas could not tell me
Every year on June 16, South Africa pauses to remember the students who marched through the streets of Soweto in 1976 and challenged an education system designed to limit their futures.
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M&G 12 June 2026
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Relevance of Youth Day in modern era
Madlanga commission revelations are adding to the youth’s growing disillusionment with society
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M&G 12 June 2026
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Retirement planning does not end when saving stops
For many South Africans, retirement planning is still understood as an accumulation exercise: save what you can, contribute to a retirement fund, preserve when possible and hope the numbers work by the time you stop earning a salary. But the real test of retirement planning begins when the pay cheque ends.
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M&G 12 June 2026
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Open the borders — Kenya minister
While calling for clearer rules on migrant labour, Lee Kinyanjui says reducing travel restrictions would boost tourism and investment
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M&G 12 June 2026
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What Youth Day won't tell you
Fifty years after the Soweto Uprising, Tiisetso Mashifane wa Noni’s Rise ‘76 strips away the ceremony of Youth Day to confront what actually happened to those children on June 16th 1976
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M&G 12 June 2026
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Projects to Progress: Infrastructure takes centre stage at DEVAC 2026
The DEVAC Infrastructure Summit highlighted the urgent need to move infrastructure projects from planning to implementation, with speakers emphasising financing, execution capacity and public-private collaboration
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M&G 12 June 2026
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The youth of 1976 sought the right to learn
The greatest tribute we can pay to the generation of 1976 is not another ceremony. It is ensuring that today’s youth are heard, included, equipped and empowered
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M&G 12 June 2026
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Nightclub nostalgia
SA had some iconic nightlife scenes years back. Subcultures were built around a dancefloor. That world now feels like it belongs to another era
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M&G 12 June 2026
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The last mystery of Tsietsi Mashinini
More than three decades after his death in exile, the circumstances surrounding Tsietsi Mashinini’s final days remain shrouded in mystery
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M&G 12 June 2026
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Youth are not the future but the present
Fifty years after the historic events of 16 June 1976, today’s youth have valuable lessons to learn from Tsietsi Mashinini and his generation, says the writer
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M&G 12 June 2026
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Frantz Fanon: Every generation must discover its mission or betray it
Every generation of young South Africans has inherited a different battlefield. The generation of 1944 confronted political stagnation.
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M&G 12 June 2026
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Explosive whistleblower report nails PIC CEO
The board of the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) has begun assessing allegations against chief executive Patrick Dlamini after receiving a whistleblower complaint that raises questions about governance, executive authority and conflicts of interest at Africa’s largest asset manager.
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M&G 12 June 2026
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Hector Pieterson dies every day
There is another kind of death that walks quietly among us: the death of potential. The death of belief. The death that happens when a young person concludes that dreaming is dangerous because disappointment is inevitable
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M&G 12 June 2026
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We're mothers with debt and degrees; women with data, no title deeds
Our daughters have woken up. They see what we refused to see: that no one is coming to save us
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M&G 12 June 2026
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Citizens don't want these political fakes
Many across the Global South created grassroots movements that were morally-centred and people-led to fight colonialism and apartheid but we cannot seem to create similar movements when leaders take us backwards
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M&G 05 June 2026
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SA and the crisis of a Union of African Peoples
Too often, Africans forget that Pan-Africanism began as a movement of peoples before it became a project of states.
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