Tuesday, 15 October 2019
A shared culture and history bind Ethiopians living and working in central Johannesburg. It is what keeps them going when the police raid their businesses and xenophobic attacks threaten their safety.
By representing an intimate conversation between two friends in the struggle, an illustrator gets to imagine her heroes in action and contribute another small piece to history’s record.
Puppets in the death agonies of parliamentary cretinism fear the working class. It is a situation which, before fascism comes into power, often gives rise to unprecedented bedlam.
Caroline Peters survived being gang raped at the age of 15. Through running, she started to heal. But then she was ousted from the running club she founded in the area she was raped.
Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, biographer Gaongalelwe Tiro’s uncle, was the first South African freedom fighter the apartheid government pursued beyond the border and killed with a parcel bomb.
In this week’s cartoon by Carlos, EFF leader Julius Malema is caught in the act of benefiting from VBS depositors.
A series of life events led to Zimbabwe’s controversial leader taking and holding on to power for 40 years, damaging his country from a position even his own mother says he wasn’t fit to hold.
A 2016 picture of a Somalian shopkeeper almost beaten to death by a mob in Tshwane reminds a photographer of the cyclic nature of South Africa’s xenophobic violence.
Focusing on the global implications of decolonisation, Achille Mbembe calls for the reformation of reason as a shared human faculty towards repairing and caring for life.
Written in 1971 from jail, Angela Davis’ treatise on the politics of incarceration in America makes an argument for resisting the unjust laws supporting repressive systems.
Luthuli was instrumental in the Defiance Campaign, which planted the seeds of protest that eventually overthrew the government. But his methods were not without criticism.
In this week’s cartoon, the murder of Uyinene Mrwetyana in a post office brings home the grotesque pervasiveness of violence committed by men against women in South Africa.
It’s not the solution to our plastic crisis, but a movement to transform plastic bottles into building blocks could provide a short-term solution.
Science fiction by Africans and set on the continent is gaining international recognition as it shows how racist, predatory colonialism makes itself felt in future worlds.
Seasoned photojournalists know that their work seldom results in positive change for the subjects of their photos, but every now and then the unexpected happens.
A clash of values was inescapable when Zandile Gumede unveiled a sculpture of Hindu child martyr Valliamma Munuswamy Mudliar.
Communist activist Claudia Jones argues for the mass organisation of working-class women against the patriarchal and oppressive forces of conservatism and capitalism.
Kathryn Yusoff’s A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None locates the origins of climate change in slavery while exploring the grammars of capture, extraction and displacement.
Trauma is often the gateway ‘drug’ that puts young South Africans on the path to nyaope addiction, and addiction carries a high price for them and their families.
While changes to environmental policy on the national level happen at a glacial pace, cities can quickly implement positive strategies, if there is citizen buy-in.
In this week’s cartoon, Cyril Ramaphosa’s investment pitch to the Atlantic powers causes a moment of confusion.