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A shocking human-egg harvesting gang has been uncovered in Georgia, where over 100 women were held as slaves.
Cartoons For Change is a "disorganisation" inviting editorial cartoonists, artists and illustrators to join the fight against child labour and slavery.
In a heartfelt letter to Santa, a journalist pleads for action against child labour and slavery, urging a commitment to #ZeroChildLabour and #ZeroSlavery by 2025.
A group of around 50 people gathered at Church Square in the Cape Town CBD, a site where hundreds of enslaved people were sold, for a symbolic renaming and reclamation of the site to ‘Freedom Square’, on Sunday.
‘The number 1860 is synonymous with Moodley’s minority Indian community. His forefathers landed on the shores of Durban, South Africa on November 16, 1860 as slaves from India, promised a better life in South Africa. ’
With the country’s known history of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery where black people were made to pick cotton and were brutalised, these texts brought up trauma among the black population.
Ghana, once the last sight of home for countless Africans forced into slavery, became the birthplace of the African independence movement and Pan-Africanism in the 20th century.
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Hotel Savera celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and is this week’s Then and Now focus.
‘While Simon’s Town’s ties to the British Royal Navy is well-documented, there is another narrative. This narrative has, sadly, been neglected. It is the story of enslaved people who once called the coastal town home. ’
An exhibition currently on show at the Education Museum in Wynberg aims to bring to the fore an often forgotten and neglected part of our identity by exploring Identities and narratives of slave descendants with surnames of calendar months.
OPINION: Given the challenges our country is faced with, religious formations must be visible, writes Prof. Bheki Mngomezulu.
Bloody violence breaks out in KZN; a school for blacks is the first learning facility in Natal; ‘we failed to protect Rwanda’, says US president; how Richard the Lionheart dies; and clueless pilots fly passengers the wrong way, but only notice when they land.
One person was kidnapped for ransom, another during a car hijacking, others while criminals carried out a robbery, and others while they walked down the street
In an open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the Church of England’s most senior cleric, child labour activist Fernando Morales-de la Cruz pleads with him to end support of child labour and slave labour practices.
This letter was sent to Pope Francis by child labour activist and advocate Fernando Morales-de la Cruz from Davos, where Morales-de la Cruz is attending the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Real people, real stories – more than just dates and boring facts
Voodoo, known locally as Vodoun, is a religion that worships gods and natural spirits along with respect for revered ancestors.
Real people, real stories – more than just dates and boring facts