Anti-migrant sentiment is a national emergency
Hounding people born elsewhere is a form of bigotry, no less than racism or sexism. Those who believe in equal treatment for everyone should campaign against this prejudice.
Analysis
Joburg court flouts right to housing
A new study shows that in most cases the Johannesburg magistrate’s court evicts people without looking into their personal circumstances, as recommended by the Constitution.
Can hateful and abusive podcasts be stopped in SA?
Podcasts are becoming increasingly popular in South Africa, but what does accountability look like for a medium that falls outside traditional broadcasting regulations?
Azapo seeks renewal
The party of socialist Black Consciousness has fresh leaders and a pact with the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania to begin working on the local level to create a viable and radical Left.
The reasons for Ramaphosa’s top-judge ruminations
South Africa’s president took his time – and then some – to announce the country’s new chief justice. What took him so long, and is Raymond Zondo ultimately the best choice?
July riots reports exposes SA’s failed neoliberalism
Sparked by Jacob Zuma loyalists but spurred by infighting and impoverishment, the 2021 riots show a society trapped between predator politics and state abandonment.
Zondo has his work cut out tackling many issues
There is no shortage of pressing problems at the Constitutional Court and the judiciary in general for the new chief justice to deal with in the short time he has.
School-to-prison pathways raise a red flag
Instead of helping children overcome bad behaviour, some schools have a zero-tolerance policy, which may push learners into the criminal justice system. Many struggle to return to school.
South Africa’s government is stuck on oil and gas
The energy minister continues to sing the same old song. More concerning is the petroleum agency’s authoritarian stance despite the environmental issues being interrogated in court.
Pakistan’s rising feminist movement
Collective action is shaking up the male-dominated social order in the Muslim-majority nation and rewriting the narratives around gender-based violence, body politics, sexuality and consent.
Modi gets a boost in India’s high-stake polls
The Indian prime minister’s Hindu nationalist party has retained power in Uttar Pradesh, signifying wide approval of its divisive politics ahead of national elections in 2024.
If only all refugees were treated like Ukrainians
People fleeing wars in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Yemen have faced racially motivated hostility in Europe, revealing Western double standards.
War profiteers will kill us all unless we unite
Western media simplify the conflict in Ukraine in ways that divide us. What if instead, we chose to unite against those who profit from all wars throughout the world?
Godongwana keeps SA on an austerity trajectory
The latest budget again shows the government’s unwillingness to pivot, even though its failed economic policies will not lower unemployment or uplift the impoverished majority.
The JSC needs a concrete path, in writing
The new chief justice will need to reform how the Judicial Service Commission operates if it is to retain its former standing.
Mali’s historic, anti-imperialist victory
Calls for French troops to leave the country have been growing since 2020 and Mali’s transitional government has adopted an increasingly defiant posture with regards to France.
The unbearable lightness of being Ukraine
History has run off the groove of the ‘liberal world order’ and on to a new trajectory, propelled by Russia’s attack on Ukraine, for which all sides are responsible and deserving of blame.
The real trick to Bongani Masuku’s case
The media simply repeating what the South African Jewish Board of Deputies says is misleading. The Constitutional Court judgment is something of which our country can be proud.
Egyptian labour in the revolutionary struggle
The Egyptian labour movement has a long history of resistance, but the current repressive regime is coming down hard on independent trade union organising.
Can we go from cancel culture to dreaming together?
While commonly viewed as a damaging form of contemporary left-wing politics, cancel culture is a symptom of a much deeper problem: the rapid erosion of our lives by computational capitalism.
No vision, no plan equals no jobs, no hope
Each state of the nation address is a random mishmash of projects dependent on the whims of the president and his speechwriters. South Africa deserves more. It needs an actual plan.