Saturday, 1 April 2023
Union statements did not lead to effective boycott of an Israeli ship, but Durban, a hub of grassroots organisations, can help forge new concrete solidarities that promise alternative visions for the future.
A new book on the SA and ANC president is useful in some respects, but it covers too short a period of his reign and sheds almost no light on the internal workings of the man himself.
The works of South African filmmakers, confronting an aspect of the apartheid era that marked the author’s generation and experience, expose an abusive masculinity defined by its homophobia.
Connecting the work of Palestinian novelist Ghassan Kanafani with Karl Marx’s thought, the national and land question in Gaza is one of existence, and a matter of life and death.
In this interview, Olúfémi Táíwò and Achille Mbembe describe the mechanisms by which the state and corporations deem Black people disposable yet indispensable while plundering the planet.