Black footballers alone in fighting against racism
The authorities have failed black footballers, who are racially abused in numerous stadiums across Europe. This is why they will have to take matters into their own hands.
Editorial
Popular solidarity is an urgent imperative
The state is separating the South African-born from migrants born elsewhere in Africa. Such exclusion and xenophobia can be fought only by cultivating horizontal forms of solidarity.
Political assassinations: A call to action
Legal repercussions for those accused of political murders are a ray of democratic hope after years of escalating assassinations, mostly carried out with impunity.
Taking Joburg from division to inclusion
South Africa’s biggest city stretches over the horizons, instead of into the skies above it. New policies offer part of the solution to this apartheid hangover.
Act against trolling, sexual harassment and abuse
Across the planet social media has been effectively exploited by the new set of authoritarian and often demagogic political leaders on the far right. Fake news is one important aspect of this.
Blood in the backstreets
When impoverished people trying to access water or land are killed by the police, the whole of society is complicit in these contemptuous murders committed by the state.
Caster Semenya and the IAAF witch-hunt
The association put the South African athlete through a humiliating gender-verification ordeal when she broke on to the circuit in 2009. Ten years later, not much has changed.
How Eskom can benefit people and the environment
Electricity must be seen as a social entitlement rather than a commodity, and ‘Eishkom’ should be central to an ambitious and equitable project of progressive social transformation.
The casspir haunts our present
The purchase of casspirs, always a tool of colonial domination, to contain land occupations and road blockades in Durban offers a deeply disturbing insight into the state of the nation.
Reserve Bank head is steering us to economic ruin
The Reserve Bank governor has been making extraordinarily bad interest rate decisions, but will he be held to account and replaced when his term ends in October?
Party politics sinks into the xenophobia gutter
As electoral politics veers to the right across the world, South African politicians follow with election promises focused on combating ‘illegal immigration’.
Afro-pessimism can be defeated by an African Spring
Ordinary people in Africa are bringing to birth, by their own sweat and blood, just societies that oppose unethical and often murderous regimes.
Liberal democracy in crisis
The liberal consensus forged at the end of the Cold War is in rapid retreat. In South Africa new social forces, with new ideas, are required if we are to find a viable path into a better future.
This is who we aim to be as New Frame
New Frame aims to write from, and in conversation with, the growing popular ferment in South Africa, and elsewhere.