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.
Editorial
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.