Monday, 20 March 2023
The fate of South Africa’s Wild Coast is up in the air as activists wait for the court to decide whether or not to institute an urgent interdict to stop Shell from surveying the ocean floor for oil and gas.
The government’s professed reliance on science to justify its response to the pandemic reveals both its overconfidence and its insecurities about getting citizens to cooperate.
The Durban Ladies owner was instrumental in the formation of Banyana Banyana before setting her sights on building her club into one of the most renowned in women’s football.
Abahlali baseMjondolo is challenging the draft bill to amend Section 25 of the Constitution, to include the rights of women and the impoverished in the fair expropriation of land.
South Africa won the Blind Cricket World Cup in 1998, but the sport has fallen on tough times despite being a lifeline for players such as KwaZulu-Natal Blind Cricket president Ndu Nyawose.
Peter Hudson recalls the thought and work of Rick Turner, the radical philosopher and trade unionist assassinated in Durban in 1978, focusing on how his philosophical orientation always revolved around action.
Members of shack dwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo are using choral hymns to share their daily reality of struggle and indignity with the world.
Professionals, facilities and knowledge are lacking when it comes to autism, resulting in children such as Sboniso Hlophe missing schooling for much of their formative years.
Abahlali baseMjondolo’s UnFreedom Day event drew a big crowd, with speakers rallying attendees to ‘fight’ for their freedom and vote for the left in the 8 May election.
South African politicians are simultaneously encouraging and legitimating xenophobia, and denying that attacks on migrants are xenophobic.
Hlaudi Motsoeneng arrived late, in a very strange outfit, and didn’t make that much sense when addressing the members of his new African Content Movement party at its launch in Durban.
The state is separating the South African-born from migrants born elsewhere in Africa. Such exclusion and xenophobia can be fought only by cultivating horizontal forms of solidarity.
Victims of the latest xenophobic violence blame electioneering by South African politicians.
Part two of a series on political killings in South Africa details this week’s cross-examination of some of those accused of the murders of KwaZulu-Natal local politicians.
Part one of a series on political killings in South Africa delves into the breakdown of integrity at party branch level in KwaZulu-Natal, and the subsequent rise in corruption and murder.
More than 2 000 people marched to Durban City Hall on Human Rights Day in a bid to get the government in KwaZulu-Natal to respond to the transgressions taking place in the province.
Almost a year later, Sabelo Maziba opens up about being attacked by football supporters and why he returned to work as a security guard at the stadium in which he almost died.
Since his 13-year-old daughter was kidnapped and driven around for seven hours, anti-xenophobia activist Raphael Bahebwa Kabambire and his family have been living in fear.