Two Blasts Rip Through Beirut But Lebanon Is Already Broken
“An accident waiting to happen” that’s how Habib Battah, a journalist in Beirut speaking to Al Jazeera described Lebanon. The country is reeling from...
Survey Finds Young People Are Worried About War, Unemployment, and Corruption
“Millennials see catastrophic war as a real likelihood in their lifetime” found the Millennials on War survey from the International Committee of the Red...
People’s Hearing To Look At Human Impact Of State Capture
For months now, the state capture commission has been taking place headed by deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo. The commission have been looking into...
Greed And Politics Have Set Fire To The Amazon Rainforest
EXPLAINER
For days images of the burning Amazon Rainforest in Brazil swept social media. Amazon is the world’s largest tropical forest. Every year parts of...
The Butchers Of Marikana Won
COMMENT
What to make of the fact that the people who set the Marikana massacre in motion now sit in South Africa’s halls of power?...
Bread Heists And Currencies: The Situation In Zimbabwe
FEATURE
Last week, news sites reported that 500 loaves of bread had been stolen by armed robbers in Zimbabwe, owing to the current bread...
Are We Willing to Send Our Parents to Jail?
SPONSORED COMMENT
The current trajectory of South Africa’s attempt to rebuild from the Zuma (plus the last 5 Mbeki) years, will eventually force our generation...
Abahlali baseMjondolo Offices Burgled After Call For Durban Mayor To Step...
The shackdwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo are fearing for their lives following a break at their Durban central offices on Wednesday night. According the organisation's...
#ApartheidBanks: Still Waiting For Justice
UPDATE: Authorities in Belgium and Luxembourg are refusing to investigate apartheid economic crimes, the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) said in a statement...
Integrity Idol Celebrates Unsung Public Officials
The Integrity Idol campaign wants to "name and fame" honest public servants working in South Africa. These are the heroes who do what's right...
The Competition Commission Tackles Schools Over Uniforms
On Tuesday, the Competition Commission finally announced that it had 'gone after' several schools and suppliers over various anti-competitive practices in the sale of...
Africans Want Political Choice, New Book Argues
Democracy Works is a book that attempts to show that the best way to economic development is through a democratic governance system. The book...
The ANC Gets Weird In Elections Videos
A video circulating on social media showing model Rethabile Lethoko campaigning for the African National Congress (ANC) has raised many questions. Social media users...
Johannesburg Teachers Tired Of “Cash For Post” Corruption
Teachers from a school in the far north of Johannesburg say they are tired of the corruption in the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE)....
#BloodFriday: Coloured Community Say They Are Tired Of Suffering
It was the death of Heather Peterson, a 45-year-old woman from Westbury that sparked the widespread protests amongst the coloured communities in Gauteng. Peterson...
What The VBS Report Means For The ANC, EFF, DA
A new Treasury report details how Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Deputy President Floyd Shivambu's brother, Brian Shivambu, allegedly sent R10 million of the stolen...
Illicit Financial Flows Have Direct Impact On Ordinary People
Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs), base erosion, profit shifting (BEPS) and wage evasion is a growing problem that is causing huge capital resource leakages in...
The Steep Price Of Being Family To Abahlali’s Most Famous Activist
AS TOLD TO
S'bu Zikode, the founding president of the radical shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo has had to be in hiding numerous times after...
ESCR: SA Must Fulfil Its Human Rights Obligations For All South...
On Saturday the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) co-hosted a solidarity meeting with Abahlali baseMjondolo in partnership with Socio-Economic Rights...
Journos Under Surveillance Threat, R2K Report Reveals
On Wednesday, civil society Right 2 Know (R2K) launched a report titled SPOOKED: Surveillance of Journalists in SA. The report looks at the growing...
