Go on the road with Daily Maverick‘s journalists as they tell the story of South Africa’s often overlooked towns this election season.
In Hutchinson, a small town just inside the Northern Cape, residents have long felt cut off from opportunities for work and development. Despite its position in an ANC-dominated region, some believe the upcoming election could be a chance for change.
The daily lives of residents in rural Limpopo are centred on getting water to their homes.
While legislated racism may have been eradicated after South Africa’s first democratic election in 1994, a racial hierarchy still permeates the town, echoes of the legacy left behind by the apartheid regime.
With KwaZulu-Natal shaping up to be the province most vulnerable to Jacob Zuma’s MK party, the ANC has gone on the offensive in the symbolically important Groutville.
Residents of the predominantly Indian community of Phoenix in Durban are frustrated with their living conditions and believe they have been forgotten by the government.
The streets of Plettenberg Bay are awash with political party posters. They adorn lamp posts along the town’s main drag, in less affluent areas and along the N2. This part of the Garden Route, stretching from the Eastern Cape border with the Western Cape to Harkerville, is home to people who are divided not only by a national road, but also by an inequality gap.
Old and young residents of Tulbagh in the Western Cape say the government should be doing more to protect their interests.
Thirty years into democracy, Daily Maverick spoke to three anti-apartheid activists about how they found their way to the land from Umkhonto weSizwe, the United Democratic Front and the ANC-linked Marxist Worker Tendency. This is Part Two – Réjane Woodroffe.
Thirty years into democracy Daily Maverick spoke to three anti-apartheid activists about how they found their way to the land from Umkhonto weSizwe, the United Democratic Front and the ANC-linked Marxist Worker Tendency. This is Part Three – Jack Lewis.
Thirty years into democracy, Daily Maverick spoke to three anti-apartheid activists about how they found their way to the land from Umkhonto weSizwe, the United Democratic Front and the ANC-linked Marxist Worker Tendency. Part One focuses on Errol April.
Joe Morolong in the Northern Cape is ranked as the worst-performing municipality in the country. Two towns within it tell very different stories about contemporary South Africa.
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