Editorial and Analysis

4 September 2019: A student protest at the head office of the Eastcape Midlands Technical and Vocational Education and Training College in Uitenhage. (Photograph by Anna Majavu)

Broken promises ruin chances for Eastern Cape students

Students from vocational colleges in the Eastern Cape are furious about late stipends, bad treatment by security on campus and outdated equipment.

By: Anna Majavu
8 Oct 2019

Editorial and Analysis

19 October 2018: A protester dressed as Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and another dressed as US President Donald Trump demonstrate with members of the group Code Pink outside the White House. (Photograph by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Brink of war

Iran’s capacity to strike back should even make a politically desperate President Donald Trump think twice about declaring war on the powerful nation.

By: Vijay Prashad
7 Oct 2019

Editorial and Analysis

3 October 2019: Philosopher, political theorist and public intellectual Achille Mbembe after presenting the Ruth First Memorial Lecture at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research. He spoke about migrancy, populism and xenophobia. (Photograph by James Puttick)

Ruth First Lecture 2019 | Achille Mbembe

Sorrowing over the treatment of migrants, Achille Mbembe calls for Africa to adopt a pro-migration stance, phase out colonial borders and become ‘a vast space of circulation’.

By: Achille Mbembe
4 Oct 2019

Editorial and Analysis

Stopping strikes strips workers of rights

When the banking sector protest was interdicted by the Labour Court, workers lost their major instrument in raising demands and bargaining with their employers.

By: New Frame Editorial
30 Sep 2019

Editorial and Analysis

20 September 2019: Thousands of learners and protesters gather ahead of a climate strike in Sydney, Australia. Protests held across Australia are part of a global mass movement demanding action on the climate crisis. (Photograph by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

If we burn, you burn with us

Millions across the globe took to the streets to agitate for climate action, igniting a revolutionary spark against capitalism in the battle for the future.

By: New Frame Editorial
23 Sep 2019

Editorial and Analysis

18 May 2019: Department of International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor has blamed the media for painting South Africa and its citizens as xenophobic. (Photograph by Gallo Images/Sunday Times/Sebabatso Mosamo)

Xenophobia denialists should be held culpable

By insisting that the recent spate of violence in South Africa was ‘just crime’ and that migrants are to blame for the country’s ills, politicians and commentators spread the hate that sparks pogroms.

By: Jan Bornman
19 Sep 2019

Editorial and Analysis

8 September 2012: Just five months before killing Reeva Steenkamp, Oscar Pistorius celebrates as he wins gold in the Men’s 400m T44 Final at the London 2012 Paralympic Games in London. (Photograph by Michael Steele/Getty Images)

Sport must fight gender-based violence

Clubs and sporting bodies have to do a better job when it comes to holding players to account for violence against women – because the law seldom does.

By: New Frame Editorial
16 Sep 2019

Editorial and Analysis

2 September 2019: Goods belonging to a street trader lie strewn across the sidewalk after a xenophobic mob rampaged through the Johannesburg CBD looting shops and attacking street traders as they went.

Xenophobia heightens with calling of ‘mass shutdown’

Four government ministries claim South Africa is not xenophobic, seemingly ignoring the outbreak of violent xenophobic attacks around the country.

By: Jan Bornman
2 Sep 2019

Editorial and Analysis

25 August 2019: The Amazon rainforest is being decimated by wildfires in the Candeias do Jamari region near Porto Velho, Brazil. (Photograph by Victor Moriyama/Getty Images)

Affirm the Earth as a global commons

The current environmental cataclysm is entangled in a worldwide political crisis in which a small elite fight to viciously encircle land and resources that belong to all humanity.

By: New Frame Editorial
2 Sep 2019

Editorial and Analysis

Justice reconsidered for victims of sexual assault

With one in five men admitting to assisting in sexual assault, it is vital that those who abet perpetrators be deemed liable.

By: Sheena Swemmer
27 Aug 2019

Editorial and Analysis

24 August 2019: Cattle grazing on land that used to be Amazon forest before it was cleared by fire in Boca do Acre, Amazonas state, Brazil. (Photograph by Reuters/Bruno Kelly)

Who will speak for the Amazon?

The Amazon is being devastated, deepening the global climate emergency. The world must save this life-giving rainforest and, in doing so, help to preserve life on Earth as well.

By: New Frame Editorial
26 Aug 2019

Editorial and Analysis

17 August 2019: Sudanese civilians celebrate the signing of Sudan's power-sharing deal following the overthrow of long-time leader Omar al-Bashir. (Photograph by Reuters/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah).

End is not in sight for Sudan revolution

The Sudanese military and the civilian opposition movement have signed a political agreement but in the meantime grassroots organisers are continuing the real revolution.

By: Mohammed Abdelraoof, Mohammed Elnaiem
23 Aug 2019

Editorial and Analysis

Long Read | Steve Bannon and the new far right

The extreme world view of those like Bannon, Joel Pollak, and their news website Breitbart, continue to shape global politics by inciting and growing the far right.

By: Christopher McMichael
21 Aug 2019

Editorial and Analysis

5 August 2019: The SABC building in Auckland Park, Johannesburg. The public broadcaster cannot afford to buy the rights from MultiChoice to televise sporting events. (Photograph by Gallo Images/Sowetan/Veli Nhlapo)

The dying SABC is crippling South African sport

The abysmal state of the public broadcaster is not only devastating for its thousands of staff. It could destroy sport in this country.

By: New Frame Editorial
19 Aug 2019

Editorial and Analysis

7 August 2019: Looters run through central Johannesburg after police opened fire with rubber bullets. A police operation targeting foreign-owned businesses in the Fashion District led to protesters looting stores in the central business district.

How Toni Morrison can help us fight xenophobia

Xenophobia is festering in South Africa, stoked by the actions of the state itself. How do we stop violence against migrants? The thoughts and words of the late Toni Morrison can help.

By: New Frame Editorial
12 Aug 2019

Editorial and Analysis

6 August 2019: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to greet his Estonian counterpart Jüri Ratas (not pictured) at Number 10 Downing Street, before a bilateral meeting. (Photograph by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Boris Johnson: Racist, bully, ruler

The UK’s new prime minister has been caught lying on numerous occasions and is absurdly bigoted, but beneath that crop of blond hair is a dangerous strategist.

By: Telford Vice
12 Aug 2019

Editorial and Analysis

12 July 2019: A man holds a placard saying ‘Support to the gilets noirs’ in front of the Panthéon in Paris, which undocumented migrants occupied to highlight their standing in France and the harm French forces have done in their homelands. (Photograph by Reuters/Philippe Wojazer)

The Gilets Noirs are in the building

The tourist economy of Paris relies on an army of undocumented migrants. But these workers won’t remain hidden – and their protests for recognition draw inspiration from the gilets jaunes.

By: Mathilde Mathieu, Rouguyata Sall
7 Aug 2019

Editorial and Analysis

3 May 2019: City of Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba said in an interview that there is simply not enough money to remedy service-delivery issues in Johannesburg. (Photograph by Gallo Images/City Press/Tebogo Letsie)

Alarming surge in xenophobic language

Globally, rightwing politicians increasingly blame migrants for a range of problems. At home, the government, police and even trade unionists are doing the same.

By: Jan Bornman
6 Aug 2019

Editorial and Analysis

7 May 2019: Dirty water streams past a toilet in Kliptown, which is strewn with rubbish.

Time for the ANC to pay its debt to history

Alexandra, Kliptown and Sharpeville – three names that ring with resistance and pride in South African liberation history. Yet despite their historical importance, these are neglected places in 2019.

By: New Frame Editorial
5 Aug 2019