How the Covid-19 team in Khayelitsha is coping
The Kess response team has been working tirelessly since mid-February to try keep the spread of the coronavirus in check, changing its strategy as the situation evolves.
Features
Cartoon | Unnatural selection
In this week’s cartoon, Covid-19 gives humanity an evolutionary upgrade.
Lumkile Mzukwa shares his book collection
The 50-year-old Gugulethu resident is opening his repurposed garage to the world so they can also enjoy his more than 2 000 books.
In Pictures | Back to school, back to reality
New Frame photojournalists document the reopening of schools, muted solidarity with Black Lives Matter in the US, the cautious return of sport and the ongoing struggles of South Africa’s most vulnerable.
Transgender rights activists champion telemedicine
Little or no access to certain health treatments is nothing new for trans people. But Covid-19 has made it worse, they say, and now is the ideal time to reconsider telemedicine.
Long Read | Cape Town’s garden of good and evil
The Kirstenbosch botanical garden was created through forced removals and used as a tool of propaganda for the apartheid state. How can black South Africans relate to it today?
Long Read | The metamorphosis of Achille Mbembe
German politicians stirred up a hornet’s nest when they accused the world renowned academic of antisemitism for being critical of Israel.
New Books | Finding Common Ground
Women smallholder farmers bring a necessary diversity to ways of working the land and are key to the growth of South Africa’s rural economy.
Cartoon | Sack the police
In this week’s cartoon, two singing legends lyrically bless the Minneapolis city council’s decision to dismantle the police department in response to the murder of George Floyd.
Photo Essay | Capetonians come together to feed the hungry
During the government’s Covid-19 lockdown, four Western Cape communities have found ways to provide food for the hungry through collective volunteer action.
Protest and policing
Riots are communities defining what counts as police brutality and to set the limits of authority. It is here, not in the courts, that our rights are established.
From the Archive | Part three: Class, health and medicine
This last of a three-part series tracks how capitalism dismantled the UK’s health system and makes a case for radical social change to reform healthcare.
Photo Essay | Joburg inner-city struggles
Migrants living in Johannesburg’s inner city have been hard hit by the Covid-19 lockdown, which has made their struggle for survival even more difficult than it already was.
You are what you eat – including plastic
Never mind how trashy it looks. The real focus on plastic pollution should be on how it harms people, animals and the world around us, directly or indirectly.
Zimbabweans struggle as remittance lifeline shrinks
The Covid-19 lockdown has compounded the hardships faced by many Zimbabweans in their own country as well as those in South Africa who keep trying to help their families from afar.
If you don’t feel for humanity, you’ve forgotten to be human
As the coronavirus continues its contagious march, socialist parts of the world are clearly making superior advancements despite economic poverty. This is because they are taking the science seriously.
Joburg’s three golden hours
Under level four of the Covid-19 lockdown, the hours from 6am to 9am became the time when inner-city residents could use local parks to escape the nightmare around them.
In Pictures | Shifting Fronts
New Frame photojournalists document the last days of lockdown at level four as South Africa prepares to resume schooling, economic activity and religious gatherings from June.
Nostalgia, undone: remembering Zimbabwe’s past
The painter Kudzanai-Violet Hwami has an interpretive ability to take apart old stories and refashion them in such a way that compelling new narratives are born.
New Books | Too Black To Wear Whites
Krom Hendricks was the first sportsperson to be barred from representing South Africa on the basis of race, even though he was touted as one of the world’s greatest fast bowlers.
After Covid-19 we must build better cities
Impoverished residents living in the peripheries have been hit especially hard by the lockdown. Can cities be designed to make life better for everyone, especially impoverished people?