Land and community in South Africa
A pragmatic and popular politics of mobilisation, alliance and amalgamation preceded colonial attempts to fix people.
Editorial and Analysis
Are charter schools on the horizon in the Western Cape?
The Western Cape Schools Amendment Bill, nearing the end of its consultation phase, is a dangerous step toward US-style “charter
The place of chiefs in postapartheid South Africa
In this excerpt from a chapter in a new book, ‘The Politics of Custom’, a careful eye is cast on the Nhlapo Commission.
This is who we aim to be as New Frame
New Frame aims to write from, and in conversation with, the growing popular ferment in South Africa, and elsewhere.
Food sovereignty is key to a just future
The food system in South Africa is rotten. In under five days, a top executive at Shoprite will earn more than a temporary farm worker on an average vineyard will earn in their entire working life.
Haiti’s new dictatorship
How an entitled ‘civil’ society has ransacked and raped a country on the brink for almost 30 years.
Modi’s India: Fascism, fundamentalism and farce
Narendra Modi ascended to political power on the back of a bloody pogrom. But Indian society has not surrendered before Modi’s fascism.
The future of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Joseph Kabila’s grip on power poses a real threat to democracy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the people of the Congo,