Cartoon | So many skeletons, so little closet
In this week’s Carlos cartoon, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo walks in on a smallanyana orgy.
Features
What’s left of Zimbabwe? Part II: Less than conscientised
In the second instalment of his five part series on the left in Zimbawe, Percy Zvomuya looks at Dorris Lessing, and communism in Southern Rhodesia, and Morgan Tsvangirai’s anti-communism.
Even apartheid couldn’t kill TV’s splendour
In isiZulu, there’s a word that aptly captures television’s ability to transport a viewer to faraway worlds – umabonakude. As a child television was a magical world, a fantastic reality beamed into…
Samir Amin: Shifting the Geography of Reason
A reflection on the life and work of Samir Amin, this year’s winner of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award.
Six years on, Marikana’s ghosts linger
For the families of mineworkers who were murdered by police in 2012, the massacre isn’t over. Pain cuts through time, and passes from one generation to the next.
Cartoon | None but ourselves can own our mines
This week, Gold Fields announced that it would soon lay off up to 1 500 workers at its South Deep mine.
What’s left of Zimbabwe? Part I
The first of a five-part journey through our northern neighbour’s tradition of leftist politics, from pre-independence to the rising tide of
Egyptian economist Samir Amin remembered
On Sunday, August 12, Samir Amin died. With him went a generation of Egyptian Marxists who came of age in the time of Nasserism and
Invasion of the Red Ants
A photographic essay on the Red Ants, impoverished people paid to evict other impoverished people from their homes and
14 Aug 2018
Workers’ rights in question at Groot Constantia
Groot Constantia has enjoyed a stellar year, but workers on the wine estate report a set of serious grievances.
Homeless and hopeless after fire ravages Good Hope
“Why are people still living here despite the countless promises to move them?” asks activist.
Anatomy of a massacre
Nearly a decade ago, the police slaughtered 34 men at Marikana, erasing parents, life partners and breadwinners. We dare not forget.
16 Aug 2012
Anatomy of a massacre
Nearly a decade ago, the police slaughtered 34 men at Marikana, erasing parents, life partners and breadwinners. We dare not forget.
16 Aug 2012