Tuesday, 21 May 2019
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.
In this second of a two-part series on the run-up to India’s national election, activist Brinda Karat details two major issues facing the country: mob lynchings and violence against women.
The extraordinary protests around the country against Algeria’s president running for a fifth term are an expression of the profound discontent with the political, economic and social situation in the country.
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.
In April and May roughly 850 million Indians go to the polls. In the first of a two-part series, activist Brinda Karat presents an overview of the far-right ruling party’s policies.
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.
Unlike its government, the people of Haiti’s message to the US is simple: if you won’t let us breathe, we won’t let you breathe, and if you suffocate Venezuela, you suffocate us.
Debates about land redress have incited new rounds of evictions, affecting thousands of farm workers who live in a state of fear and uncertainty.
The organised white middle and upper classes in Venezuela are deemed “civil society” but when the darker-skinned, working-class majority organise they are labelled as “thugs”.
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.
It was the briefest budget speech in years, all over in an hour. Was its brevity designed to speed past the bad news or to disguise the lack of good news?
Through butchery and sectarianism, the autocracies of the Arab world have survived this round. But in the long run, any order dependent on murder and bloodshed is doomed to collapse.
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 Competition Amendment Bill is a valuable intervention that could help to break down monopolies. So why is Ramaphosa hesitating to sign it?
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.
Why and how has South Africa’s post-1994 parliament developed an attitude of such deference to the executive? The answer is discomfiting, and lies within the ruling party itself.
The solution to global warming and other threats to survival is not to weatherproof the already privileged, but to fight for democratic and egalitarian politics that protect us all.
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?
Zondo commission evidence supports Jacob Zuma’s claims that his nine years as president were not wasted, but not in a good way.
The oppressed don’t need to be told they are dominated. They know. To gain democratic rights, they need to expand their power base through organisation.
The world’s largest gathering of protesting women took place across Kerala in India to defend women’s rights to enter a temple, as sanctioned by India’s Supreme Court.