In Pictures | Signs of the times
New Frame photojournalists continue to bear witness to the realities of an unfolding lockdown. 12 May was International Nurses Day, so we pay tribute to those risking their lives to fight Covid-19.
Stories by: New Frame
Xenophobia on the rise as Covid-19 roils the planet
Racist and xenophobic politicians have abused the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent national lockdowns to bang the drum for their chauvinism and propaganda.
Covid-19 Roundup | Food parcels and water shortages
Constant adaptation is the battle plan in South Africa as the coronavirus continues to spread, but the politicisation of food and a lack of water in the Eastern Cape have compounded the fight.
In Pictures | Exercise and rights
For some, going outside has been a literal breath of fresh air. Others are feeling stifled as they struggle for money and food. New Frame photojournalists took to the streets with the rest of South Africa as the Covid-19 lockdown eased.
The urgency of critique
In this time of crisis in which many hard-won rights have been limited, it is vital that free and open debate be encouraged – including when it is critical of the state.
In Pictures | Patience, hunger and faith
The initial Covid-19 lockdown has tentatively eased in South Africa. New Frame photojournalists document the empty streets and desperation that defined this difficult period.
Freedom not yet
The ANC’s access to state power has not been used to honour the commitments the organisation made to the people who gave it their trust. Oppression has spread, like a virus.
In Pictures | The lockdown waiting game
New Frame photojournalists capture the lives of the country’s most vulnerable in week three of the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown, as they run out of food and money and the days grow colder.
Imagining the new normal after Covid-19
The global pandemic could either further entrench neoliberal structures or create an opening for radical change. Either way, life as we know it is over.
In Pictures | Covid-19 and the new normal
As South Africa enters the end of its second week of lockdown, New Frame photojournalists document life and the effects of staying put beyond the coronavirus.
Covid-19 brings rubber bullets and water for the poor
The pandemic has pushed the state towards effective action, but this is simultaneoulsy taking both repressive and potentially progressive forms.
In Pictures | How SA looks in the Covid-19 lockdown
New Frame photojournalists capture the first week of the national, 21-day lockdown in the country’s major cities as the government attempts to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Lockdown must not lead to creeping mass eviction
As South Africa navigates the uncharted waters of its lockdown, what it holds for people confined to densely populated and under-serviced shack settlements is of grave concern.
Covid-19 and our shared future
Government’s extraordinary measures to stem the coronavirus pandemic show us how in the face of any disaster a new and more socially orientated common sense can emerge.
Coronavirus and the crisis of capitalism
The viral pandemic is exposing the weakness and unsustainability of the global economic system.
Zero hours contracts are a poverty sentence
In South Africa’s long history of worker exploitation, zero hours contracts are the likely next chapter. But workers cannot afford to sit out a protracted legal process to expose them for what they are.
Budget speech: Our rulers will not save us
It appears we will not get the bold, macroeconomic framework we need to address economic, social and ecological issues. This will have to be achieved through sustained popular pressure from below.
Politicians’ words diminish gender-based violence
Accusations of wife-beating in Parliament diminish the gender-based violence crisis in South Africa, which extends to murdered girls such as Tazne van Wyk who often get lost in statistics.
Viral racism
As yet officially unnamed, the coronavirus is being dubbed the China Virus by some news outlets, spurring anti-Chinese sentiment and an all-too-familiar xenophobia.
Resisting the far-right and its trolls
White supremacists use the internet to spew myths of victimisation that legitimise racist ideologies. Their attempts to silence critical voices in the South African media must be opposed.
The aftermath of injustice
Only two inquests into detainee deaths under apartheid’s Security Branch have been reopened, but the values of the more than 70 activists who died at John Vorster Square live on.