Cosatu’s plan to get Eskom out of debt
South Africa is facing its worst postapartheid economic crisis with state-owned companies holding crippling debt, but decisive use of pension funds could grow the economy.
Editorial and Analysis
Is the new leader changing Angola for the better?
The government is charging the daughter of the former president with corruption in a move heralded as a sea change. Is Angola’s new president steering the country into a new era?
Viral racism
As yet officially unnamed, the coronavirus is being dubbed the China Virus by some news outlets, spurring anti-Chinese sentiment and an all-too-familiar xenophobia.
We need a media system that serves people’s needs, not corporations’
We should dare to imagine a public media system that privileges democracy over profits.
How Bollywood furthers India’s Hindu nationalism
The Indian film industry has not only embraced Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nationalistic Hindu agenda, it has enabled the portrayal of Muslims as the ‘bad’ other.
Communist magic
By practising new forms of commoning, of doing and being together, we can begin to wield a different kind of power.
Court victory for 400 000 elderly black women
An apartheid law that dispossessed black women of the assets accrued during their marriages has finally been scrapped after a Pinetown pensioner, facing impoverishment, went to court.
Resisting the far-right and its trolls
White supremacists use the internet to spew myths of victimisation that legitimise racist ideologies. Their attempts to silence critical voices in the South African media must be opposed.
The aftermath of injustice
Only two inquests into detainee deaths under apartheid’s Security Branch have been reopened, but the values of the more than 70 activists who died at John Vorster Square live on.
How the DRC influenced Zimbabwe’s history
The fall of colonialism in what was then Zaire was brutal and bloody, boosting white resistance in neighbouring countries and setting them on a different course.
Would wage transparency work in SA?
In Scandinavian countries, citizens can look up what any other citizen earns in an online national database. Could South Africa use a version of income transparency? Economists, as usual, are divided.
Chicago’s experiment in radical democracy
In the 1970s, Chicago’s 44th Ward was placed under direct democratic control of its residents, challenging the corrupt mayor’s near-total control over the city.
All change and no change in South African cricket
Race and class dynamics continue to dominate the sport while Cricket South Africa still has no discernible plan to transform the game and promote black players.
A step backwards for human rights in SA
The Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act goes against the international progress made in protecting the rights of rural and indigenous people, particularly when it comes to mining.
The franc zone, a tool of French neocolonialism in Africa
François Mitterrand warned that France would be irrelevant to 21st-century history unless it maintained its control of Africa. Its instrument for so doing is the CFA franc.
The day Gaza becomes uninhabitable
Palestinian-South African academic Haidar Eid speaks to New Frame about the day the United Nations said the densely populated Gaza Strip would officially become unsuitable for human habitation.
SA needs an alternative to privatisation
Having lived through Zuma’s kleptomania and still contending with the EFF’s kleptocracy, some South Africans have shifted in favour of neoliberalism. But is this the solution?
The tiring matric pass rate chorus
The ‘increasing’ matric pass rate, celebrated year after year, does not take into account the number of pupils who didn’t make it that far, covering up a much deeper crisis in our education system.
Is this the end of US interference in West Asia?
The US assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani may well not result in a weaker Iran, as the killers intended, but in a decline of American power in the region.
Australia’s fires give us a glimpse of what’s coming
Even as Australia burns, the government is reaffirming its commitment to coal and waging a war on climate activists. But as the crisis deepens, climate barbarism is no longer an option.
On depoliticisation
Our global situation should be understood not only in terms of a resurgent radical politics, but also in terms of depoliticisation.