Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Richard Pithouse is from Durban and is the editor-in-chief of New Frame. He has been writing for newspapers in South Africa for more than 20 years and is also an academic.
The state needs to bring the attacks on critical infrastructure in KwaZulu-Natal to an immediate end and ensure that the people who live there have food and feel safe.
On what would have been his 80th birthday, we reflect on the late Palestinian poet’s extraordinarily abundant, deeply humane and brilliantly kaleidoscopic work.
Medical science has developed hugely powerful technologies that can be used for social purposes. But to achieve this, it needs to be clearly on the side of the people.
Twenty-five years ago today, Bruce Springsteen released The Ghost of Tom Joad. It remains a searing record of real political import that sounds even more timely than it did in 1995.
The band’s first new studio album in almost twenty years, The Makarrata Project, is a radical critique of Australian society made in collaboration with Indigenous Australian artists.
Food production and distribution systems were failing to feed the world long before the Covid-19 pandemic. But perhaps the hunger experienced now can provide the impetus to fix them.
The social justice media project that is New Frame turns one today. It has come a long way from its launch, but is looking forward to the long and challenging way to go.
In death, the artist begins the process of becoming a collective ancestor for South Africans and others around the world whose lives have been touched by his music and deep empathy with the oppressed.
As liberalism continues to be challenged from the right and the left what forces will cohere in South Africa?
New Frame aims to write from, and in conversation with, the growing popular ferment in South Africa, and elsewhere.