Alcohol industry and government have to do better
The three sales bans the government has imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic have placed South Africans’ alcohol abuse and the booze industry’s predatory nature firmly in the spotlight.
Editorial
Trumpism will fester into the future
American voters really only had two choices at the polls, and diversity at the helm is not enough to put the US firmly on the road to inclusivity.
The revolutionary promise of New Year’s Day
In 1804, enslaved Africans seized their freedom on the Caribbean island that became Haiti. It came at an unthinkable cost, but it remains an inspiring example of what popular commitment and organisation can achieve.
A year of global crisis
The Covid-19 pandemic remains a worldwide crisis. An adequate response to it, and to the crises to come, will require forms of progressive organisation with a global reach.
SA is failing to meet the challenge of a second wave
The intersection of the second wave of Covid-19 infections with the festive season poses real risks for society – risks that the government seems unable or unwilling to address.
More authoritarianism will escalate social violence
South Africans live in constant fear. Many of the responses proposed to deal with the crisis of endemic violence are themselves a threat to social solidarity and the prospect of a just peace. However, the downward spiral can be reversed in democratic, lasting ways.
Urgent action is required to oppose xenophobia
Both ANC factions have chosen to incite xenophobia to sustain consent for their authority, but popular organisations can and must create grassroots opposition in solidarity with migrants.
Eastern Cape health woes expose government failures
Covid-19 has highlighted what South Africans already knew about the Eastern Cape’s health system: it’s dysfunctional and on the verge of collapse, and a remedy is needed urgently.
More to corruption fight than arresting Magashule
Corruption in all its forms is the predatory enrichment of a minority at the expense of the impoverished majority, and should not be tolerated.
Fight the Trumpism that will outlast Trump
Joe Biden offers only breathing room in the United States, not a long-lasting solution enabling prosperity and dignity for the vast majority of the people.
The politic of blood
The repression and abandonment of impoverished people continues unabated in South Africa, consigning them to lives that cannot flourish and deaths that pass unnoticed among the elite.
A culture of impunity in Nigeria’s police must stop
The world was watching when soldiers and police officers shot into a crowd of #EndSARS protesters, killing more than ten and highlighting police brutality in Africa’s most populous country.
New social grants are more than money
Converting grants introduced during the Covid-19 lockdown into permanent ones is not only about securing the bare conditions for life, the prospects for even a limited progressive state are at stake.
A new unity on the streets
Organisations that represent the working class and impoverished people are stepping into the political vacuum left by the warring factions of the ANC.
The oppressed must organise or starve
The social catastrophe in which the country finds itself after months of lockdown has left impoverished people with the imperative to build their power against an increasingly hostile state.
A heritage to call our own
Blessed with many peoples, cultures and languages, South Africa can mould a heritage that takes the best from the past, nurtures it in the present and preserves it for the future.
Murder is a routine tool of social control
The scale at which grassroots activists, and participants in strikes and protests, have been murdered is a major threat to democracy, a threat which is seldom taken seriously in the elite public sphere.
EFF sexism and authoritarianism make a toxic mix
The party cannot be allowed to continue threatening, harassing and deriding women if it is serious about addressing urgent injustices in South Africa.
Mobilising against southern Africa’s ruling-party rot
Breaking the grip of southern Africa’s predatory ruling parties, which exist only to serve their own selfish needs, will require a collective vision backed by popular solidarities.
Dispatches from a province at the peak of the virus
As we celebrate our second birthday with intimate portraits of life in Gauteng as Covid-19 rages, New Frame commits anew to fair, accurate journalism that constantly questions the status quo.
State looting calls ANC legitimacy into question
Early admiration in South Africa for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has quickly dissolved with representatives of the state stealing emergency funds on a massive scale.