Murder is a routine tool of social control
The scale at which grassroots activists, and participants in strikes and protests, have been murdered is a major threat to democracy, a threat which is seldom taken seriously in the elite public sphere.
Political assassination
Activist Ayanda Kota fears for his life
The leader of the Unemployed People’s Movement is in hiding after being warned about a plan to assassinate him. It is no idle threat in a province where political murders are rife.
Is this the end of US interference in West Asia?
The US assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani may well not result in a weaker Iran, as the killers intended, but in a decline of American power in the region.
Witnessing the bloody unspoken in KwaZulu-Natal
The majority of the more than 100 people killed in the province have been ANC members, but now witnesses, and even police officers, appear to be on hit lists.
NPA to re-examine Neil Aggett’s death
The minister of justice has announced that the NPA will reopen the inquest into the activist’s death by hanging in a police cell in 1982, but the news is bittersweet for his sister.