
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The recent devastation in Durban and surrounds shows the fatal intersection between climate change and kleptocracy in a political environment hostile to all alternatives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If Western-led globalisation ends, the end of ‘the second great age of globalisation’ may be upon us.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 widening separation between the nationalist imagination and emancipatory hopes is turning the former into an alibi for increasingly dangerous forms of reactionary politics.