From the Archive | Facing Mount Kenya
Early in his life, Jomo Kenyatta penned a book on the cultural and historical traditions of the Kikuyu people of central Kenya, then known as the Gikuyu people.
By: Jomo Kenyatta
28 Nov 2019
28 Nov 2019
Features
Long Read | Taxi industry exploits drivers
The taxi industry contributes billions to South Africa’s informal economy, yet the drivers who are the bedrock of the public transport system are left on the margins of that economy.
By: Magnificent Mndebele, Musawenkosi Cabe
27 Nov 2019
27 Nov 2019
Cartoon | Apocalypse then
In this week’s cartoon, we travel back to the doom of the dinosaurs and meet the original climate denialists…
By: Carlos Amato
26 Nov 2019
26 Nov 2019
The city where food breaks down divisions
Delhi’s food – from the street stall mo-mo to potato bread at the country’s best restaurant – stirs together what the ruling party seeks to divide: people across class, religion and caste.
By: Niren Tolsi
22 Nov 2019
22 Nov 2019
From the Archive | Class struggle in Africa
In the struggle to achieve equality through socialism, differences in nationality, race and religion are irrelevant. There are no African ‘alien’ workers, the enemy is imperialism.
By: Kwame Nkrumah
21 Nov 2019
21 Nov 2019
Book Review | Parcel of Death
By giving us a glimpse into the remarkable life of anti-apartheid activist Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, journalist and Tiro’s nephew Gaongalelwe Tiro memorialises the young firebrand’s life.
By: Percy Zvomuya
20 Nov 2019
20 Nov 2019
The forgotten mass destruction of Jewish homes during ‘Kristallnacht’
Most histories highlight the shattered storefronts and synagogues set aflame. But it was the systematic ransacking of Jewish homes that extracted the greatest toll.
By: Wolf Gruner
19 Nov 2019
19 Nov 2019
Cartoon | Telling porkies
In this week’s cartoon, Prince Andrew, Britain’s Duke of York, is interviewed on the BBC and fails to convince the world he had nothing to do with his friend Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual predations.
By: Carlos Amato
19 Nov 2019
19 Nov 2019
From the Archive | We are the Third Force
Allegations that a ‘Third Force’ is behind popular mobilisation are answered by a key intellectual in the shack dwellers’ movement who argues that oppression rather than external conspiracy explains the emergence of a new movement outside the authority of the ruling party.
By: S’bu Zikode
14 Nov 2019
14 Nov 2019
American right against SA’s sex education syllabus
Lobby group FOR SA is backed by the US Christian right. Its latest target is South Africa’s increasingly inclusive sex education lesson plans.
By: Haley McEwen
14 Nov 2019
14 Nov 2019
¡Compañero Víctor Jara Presente!
Chile’s massive, ongoing uprising is drawing its anthems from the songs and artists of the Allende years – particularly Víctor Jara, the legendary folk singer and martyr killed in the 1973 coup.
By: J Patrice McSherry
13 Nov 2019
13 Nov 2019
New Books | The Night Trains
For more than a century, night trains took Mozambican men to labour in Witwatersrand mines. Then, often when the men were mentally and physically broken, the trains that serviced racial capitalism spat them back out.
By: Charles van Onselen
13 Nov 2019
13 Nov 2019
The untold history in my grandmother’s dompas
Holding on to the Reference Book that determined where my grandmother was and wasn’t allowed to go during apartheid gives me important insight into the complexity of her life.
By: Kholosa Tshandana
12 Nov 2019
12 Nov 2019
Cartoon | The wheels of injustice
Markus Jooste’s dodgy deals wiped billions off pension fund values… but there is still no sign of a criminal charge.
By: Carlos Amato
12 Nov 2019
12 Nov 2019
The Nigerian activist whose death shamed Shell
The Nigerian state executed environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa 24 years ago. His death brought international attention to the rapacious behavior of oil companies like Shell.
By: Roy Doron and Toyin Falola
11 Nov 2019
11 Nov 2019
Asha’s legacy in food, home and memory
Asha Maharaj creates dishes that honour her heritage, bringing its complexity and flavour to the homes of millions over the years who savour the richness of South African Indian cooking.
By: Dinika Govender
8 Nov 2019
8 Nov 2019
From the Archive | Cuba Libre
This is the second of a two-part series, which details an exchange between American poet and activist LeRoi Jones – later known as Amiri Baraka – and Fidel Castro in Cuba, 1960.
By: Amiri Baraka
7 Nov 2019
7 Nov 2019
Faithless Turkey
By censoring the internet, dictating sermons in mosques and jailing journalists, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is subverting secularism. Now, he turns his attention to the Kurds.
By: Telford Vice
7 Nov 2019
7 Nov 2019
Healthy body, yes. Healthy mind?
Promoting a healthy mind, as opposed to waiting for people to become unwell, is the way to prevent the scourge of mental illness that is still stigmatised today.
By: Tebadi Mmotla
5 Nov 2019
5 Nov 2019
Cartoon | Offside and off key
In this week’s cartoon, Mbuyiseni Ndlozi misreads the moment.
By: Carlos Amato
5 Nov 2019
5 Nov 2019
Book Review | Relics of the third modernity
Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism traces the origins of the new economic order, which extracts human experience as raw material.
By: Chantelle Gray
4 Nov 2019
4 Nov 2019