Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder hurts oppressed people
The journalist is among more than 50 reporters who have died at the hands of the Israeli regime and is remembered for bravely giving a voice to Palestinians.
Editorial and Analysis
Murder most foul
Political killings have become an all too common tool of control in South Africa. It is essential that this grim reality is recognised and opposed.
Digital switch will leave millions without TV
The analogue television signal will be turned off on 30 June in a move that will bar impoverished households from access and sink community television stations.
Statement of solidarity with Abahlali baseMjondolo
Noam Chomsky, Ruth Wilson Gilmour and others pledge their support for the shack dwellers’ movement and call for solidarity in the wake of the assassination of Nokuthula Mabaso.
Floods and disaster capitalism prey on KwaZulu-Natal
The recent devastation in Durban and surrounds shows the fatal intersection between climate change and kleptocracy in a political environment hostile to all alternatives.
Chief executives really don’t need to earn so much
There’s a limit to how much one person can spend and it falls way below what top executives are paid in South Africa. Inequality will remain until the wealthy concede this.
Why non-alignment is urgent for the Global South
We have been outside looking in for too long to believe the West will give us a seat at their table. We need financial autonomy and development that can withstand the attacks of the major powers.
Another assassination in Durban
As political killings continue in the city, claiming the lives of activists exposing ANC rot and failures, serious questions need to be asked of our democratic commitments.
A steady ticking towards the hour of the hangman
The xenophobic and violent Operation Dudula is part of a global trend of rising right-wing vigilantism that is finding favour in an era of crisis.
Bulldozers bear down on India’s Muslim communities
As religious strife grips the nation and clashes with Hindus take place, several state authorities have retaliated by razing properties belonging to Muslims to the ground.
Marking Workers’ Day in dispiriting times
Previously, millions of people were mobilised in the hope of a better future on May Day. Now, amid mass unemployment and the collapse of an emancipatory vision, that optimism is absent.
Brazen double standards in response to Ukraine war
Some deaths cannot matter more than others and neither can some conflicts be treated as more horrendous than the rest. But that is what the West seems to be saying.
Jeremy Corbyn: Now, let us talk peace
Some say to discuss peace at a time of war is a sign of weakness, but the opposite is true. The deaths, refugees and grief have to come to an end.
The new globalisation might have an Eastern face
If Western-led globalisation ends, the end of ‘the second great age of globalisation’ may be upon us.
Rebuilding Durban will require the state and society
The ANC’s repeated failures to manage public money with integrity and social purpose are not the only cause for concern as relief efforts get under way in Durban.
Gas is a game-changer and the players are plotting
In the second of two articles on the energy transition, the battle for gas exploration in South Africa is explored – and why the production delays in Mozambique suit some interests.
Europe is sleepwalking into another world war
Seeing through non-European lenses, Europe and the United States stand haughtily all but alone, probably capable of winning one battle but on their way to certain defeat in the war of history.
Who gets the ‘dirty’ profits while going for ‘clean’?
In the first of two articles on the energy transition that must happen across the world, it’s clear that coal will be around for years to come. Less clear is who will benefit from it.
eThekwini ANC faction chooses power over the people
Zandile Gumede’s election to yet another powerful position in the KwaZulu-Natal region is, by most accounts, in the interest of her self-serving supporters and not the long-suffering residents.
Devastation in Durban
The floods that have wreaked havoc in the shacklands of Durban are another searing indictment of the social abandonment of the majority by a predatory political elite.
The imperative of political hope
The widening separation between the nationalist imagination and emancipatory hopes is turning the former into an alibi for increasingly dangerous forms of reactionary politics.