Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Dennis has a research background in labour, land and housing. He writes about cities, farm work and popular politics in the countryside.
To celebrate Workers’ Day, we go back in time. In Durban in 1973, South African workers were raising their voices for better conditions and their fists against the system of apartheid.
South African scientists have played a crucial role in global Covid-19 research. We go behind the scenes with one of them. Also, residents of Cape Town’s historic Kalk Bay feel the creep of gentrification.
New variants are now the priority in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. One of South Africa’s leading virologists tells us why that battle has only just begun.
We tell the story of an 80-year-old Joburger who shows us how water shaped the city into what it is today. Also, who are the Africans leading the fight for LGBTQIA+ rights?
The Modi regime detains an Indian comedian for a joke he didn’t tell as it clamps down on ‘dissent’. Why people share fake news. And the story of Miriam Makeba and the 1980s hit song Just the Two of Us.
One million new job seekers trying to enter South Africa’s post-lockdown labour market have driven unemployment numbers to record levels.
Unprecedented increases in South Africa’s unemployment levels were largely reversed after the easing of the hard lockdown instituted to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
South Africa is the most unequal country in the world economically. Here’s a way to fix that. Also, thinker Noam Chomsky tells us how to achieve peace in the Middle East.
In Joburg’s inner city, existing political fault lines are providing fertile ground for the spread of misinformation, with vaccine scepticism taking hold.
Amid a climate crisis, the ancient stories in South Africa’s fossils contain crucial lessons for the planet. But who the people are that reveal these stories is as important.
Ferrero factory workers have won the first battle in what might become one of South Africa’s next wars on casual and precarious work.
In an environment where activism against mining is becoming increasingly deadly, Nonhle Mbuthuma’s life may be at risk.
Years of poor management and administration coupled with a devastating Covid-19 lockdown mean that the coming economic storm will hit South Africa’s most vulnerable hardest.
Grant top-ups and the new social relief of stress grant must be extended beyond October as crucial indicators show that the country’s economic prospects remain grim.
One of South Africa’s biggest and most troubled development projects is entering a new phase, yet some of the same difficulties that have plagued it thus far remain unresolved.
The so-called Spanish Flu that marched across South Africa a century ago influenced the way our cities are laid out today. What can we learn from that earlier outbreak?
A century ago, so-called Spanish Flu was beginning a menacing march across South Africa. As we continue to endure the airborne coronavirus pandemic, what can we learn from the last one?
Two years ago, the Constitutional Court confirmed that firearm ownership is a legislated privilege, not a right. But a high court judge stepped in to protect criminal gun owners.
The coronavirus lockdown has added new dimensions to a decades-long struggle for electricity in the far west of Soweto, where residents have challenged the situation fiercely in recent weeks.
Economists and Nairobi water company cut off impoverished people’s water supply in the Kenyan capital in an effort to establish if landlords will pay their outstanding bills.
The first estimates of how the coronavirus has impacted livelihoods have arrived and the data is harrowing, showing women and lower-income black earners are disproportionately affected.