Before Parliament, Ramaphosa Shows He Doesn’t Get It On GBV
OPINION
“Women should not have to protect themselves from men. They should feel safe and secure with us as men,” said President Cyril Ramaphosa during...
Xenophobia Permeates All Levels Of South African Politics
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema made news headlines a few weeks ago when he questioned whether former president Jacob Zuma's children Duduzane...
Nsfas spokesperson: Nsfas is now a free education provider
As part of the government’s new free education commitment, the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas) will be granting bursaries instead of loans to...
Basic Education, Parliament Officials Call Out Elijah Mhlanga’s Offensive #ReadToLead Tweets
Officials within the department of basic education (DBE) have responded to the department spokesperson’s controversial tweets. Both the DBE minister Angie Motshekga and the...
#LifeEsidimeni arbitration should hold health department accountable
Led by former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke, an arbitration process to help resolve the deaths of over 100 mentally ill patients after they...
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...
Rantso Mokopane On How The NWU Attack Happened
Twenty-two-year-old Thabang Mosiako, a South African athletics champion who was due to fly to Algeria for the CAA African Cross Country Championships in March...
#MyBodyMyChoice: The Right To Safe Abortion Is Protected By Law
Cries of "my body, my choice", "my vagina, my choice" and "phansi unsafe abortions" rang in the air in the name of the campaign...
South Africa remains a nation of insiders and outsiders, 27 years...
Twenty seven years into democracy, South African politics is still for the few. And those who complain the most have the least to grumble...
#EECoverUp: Zackie Achmat Is Taking M&G To Press Ombudsman
Prominent activist Zackie Achmat said on Wednesday that he will be filing a complaint against the Mail & Guardian with the press ombudsman for...
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?...
A POC Supper At UCT’s Decolonial School Is Causing White Tears
An objection to a People Of Colour (POC)-only space at the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Winter Decolonial School is shifting the attention from...
In their own words: reflections on the #JulyUnrest
July 2022 marks a year since the 2021 July Unrest. It was a time of intense unrest, and violence sparked by many different factors....
[EXTRACT] Eight Days in July: Inside the Zuma unrest that set...
In July 2021, with the imprisonment of Jacob Zuma, dramatic and violent scenes of unrest and looting unfolded in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. Piecing together...
The Qatar FIFA World Cup: It’s only ‘sportswashing’ if we let...
In July 2018 I was studying in the United Kingdom, and paused for an afternoon to watch the England men’s national soccer team play...
Court ruling a victory but justice is still elusive for survivors...
Eight women and men took on the law so a businessman accused of sexually abusing them decades ago could be brought to book. He...
March on Durban City Hall: ‘As shack dwellers we deserve some...
Thousands of people marched to the Durban City Hall on Monday against alleged violent evictions of shack dwellers in different informal settlements around Durban....
Fundraiser For Collins Khosa Family
Collins Khosa was one of the first casualties of the COVID-19 lockdown. Khosa from Alexandra, Johannesburg was killed on Easter Friday following a clash...
What you need to know about the Political Party Funding Act
The Political Party Funding Act has been getting a lot of attention since president Cyril Ramaphosa signed a proclamation on the commencement in 2021....
EFF leadership, please bring your patriarchs to order
Some of the responses to the *womxn of the Wits Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (EFFSC) calling out a male member for rape show...
