Musawenkosi Cabe

@CabeMusa

Originally from Pietermaritzburg, Musawenkosi Cabe’s areas of interest include bottom-up social mobilisation, social movements and unions, as well as football, social justice, spatial justice and constitutionalism.

Stories by: Musawenkosi Cabe

S7 Episode 12: The Faith Edition | God and politics

In this bumper edition, find out why politicians spoil the religious vote and so many Jews fought apartheid. Also, meet SA’s chief satanist and hear the music that makes Muslims dance.

Hosted by: Musawenkosi Cabe
14 Apr 2022

S7 Episode 9: Sex violence in prison | RIP Ayanda Ngila

Sexual assault in South African jails is widespread but grossly under-reported. We lift the veil on this scourge. And, we pay tribute to murdered land activist Ayanda Ngila.

Hosted by: Musawenkosi Cabe
25 Mar 2022

S7 Episode 6: Fanon in 2022 | Kenya’s weird sounds

A new book celebrates Frantz Fanon’s seminal work as a shack dwellers’ movement applies his ideas 60 years on. Also, a Kenyan woman’s challenge to experimental music.

Hosted by: Musawenkosi Cabe
4 Mar 2022

Analysis

Indecent interviews: Will the JSC self-correct?

Commissioners who threatened the reputations of judges should face sanction for ambushing and humiliating the candidates being interviewed for the position of chief justice.

By: Musawenkosi Cabe
11 Feb 2022

S7 Episode 3: Afcon: the good, the bad and the greedy | Boooth!

The Afcon was full of the passion and pain of African football. We talk about its pan-Africanism, ask who’s to blame for the stampede and get a legend to weigh in on Bafana’s future.

Hosted by: Musawenkosi Cabe
11 Feb 2022

Analysis

Who will be democratic SA’s sixth chief justice?

The Constitutional Court has been without a permanent head since October. The JSC is finally conducting interviews with four judicial candidates as the public watches with interest.

By: Musawenkosi Cabe
31 Jan 2022

News

ConCourt clarifies act for asylum seekers

The apex court has reversed amendments to the act that made it difficult for refugees to apply for asylum while making it easy for Home Affairs officials to unjustly detain and deport them.

By: Musawenkosi Cabe
20 Jan 2022

S6 Episode 13: Apartheid hitman | Anti-apartheid hitmakers

South Africa has much unfinished business. A security cop’s book lifts the lid on unpunished apartheid crimes and we rediscover the role Prophets of Da City played in the cultural revolution.

Hosted by: Musawenkosi Cabe
10 Dec 2021

Features

Farm workers remain landless and marginalised

The postapartheid government has betrayed both the Freedom Charter and the Constitution with its failure to get land into the hands of those who actually work it.

By: Musawenkosi Cabe
26 Nov 2021

S6 Episode 11: Land matters: Tembeka Ngcukaitobi speaks to us

Despite the promises made in the Constitution, South Africa’s farm workers still cannot gain any ground. That is why land matters, lawyer and author Tembeka Ngcukaitobi explains.

Hosted by: Musawenkosi Cabe
26 Nov 2021

News

Court halts xenophobic raids in inner-city Joburg

The Constitutional Court has put a stop to the metro police and home affairs officials using warrantless searches to drive out migrants from buildings in the city.

By: Musawenkosi Cabe
1 Nov 2021

S6 Episode 6: The case for a shorter working week

We look at Iceland’s effective four-day workweek, hear from dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson about what he’d do with more time and find out from sociologist Eddie Webster if it could work in South Africa.

Hosted by: Musawenkosi Cabe
22 Oct 2021

Editorial

Defend journalists and media freedom in eSwatini

Journalists are censored through cruel and illegitimate detention, torture and the removal of means to disseminate information to citizens crying – and dying – for it.

By: Musawenkosi Cabe
19 Oct 2021

Features

Waste pickers should be seen as essential workers

Come rain or sun, waste pickers push their trolleys full of recycled material. But despite providing an environmental service they are not treated as the public-service workers they are.

By: Musawenkosi Cabe
15 Oct 2021

S6 Episode 3: Waste pickers of the world unite

They do essential work, yet most governments, cities and residents ignore them and their rights. We speak to reclaimers and the people who organise them globally.

Hosted by: Musawenkosi Cabe
1 Oct 2021

S5 Episode 14: Podcasts for change

Can podcasts be a force for progressive change? We look at global examples and then hone in on African podcasts, plus a popular South African broadcaster who has crossed over.

Hosted by: Musawenkosi Cabe
20 Aug 2021

News