“In The Infrastructure And The Law, There Is Apartheid Towards The...
The year 2018 marks 70 years since the declaration of the state of Israel and the horrendous acts it committed to cement its territorial...
Vavi: Only nationalisation can end SA’s job-loss bloodbath
Saftu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi says that as inequality continues to grow, more and more people are demanding a socialist economic structure. Vavi was...
Enjoy The FIFA World Cup, In Spite Of The Politics
Poor Mohamed Salah. In an image tweeted out by the New York Times chief soccer correspondent Rory Smith, the Egyptian winger is pictured with...
What does Zuma’s corruption charge concession mean?
On 14 September, the Supreme Court of Appeal finally heard an appeal which will decide whether the corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma will...
Saftu still awaiting permission for a November general strike
Cosatu embarked on a national strike on Wednesday to protest corruption and state capture. The recently formed South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu)...
A university starving for land: Why one professor is on hunger...
In Delhi, India, students and one professor are fighting for an important educational resource - land.
Since its inception in 2007, GB Pant Government Engineering...
Life Esidimeni Families To Receive R1.2 Million In Compensation
Family members of the Life Esidimeni victims will receive R1.2 million in equitable financial compensation, the Arbitration led by former deputy chief justice Dikgang...
Amidst extreme politicking at Wits, the EFF takes the SRC
On Thursday, the University of Witwatersrand chapter of the Economic Freedom Fighters, also known as Wits EFF Student Command (EFFSC) announced it had won...
Oxfam’s Admission of Sexual Abuse In Haiti Points To Deeply Entrenched...
The international NGO sector is a multibillion dollar industry and one vital to the survival, stabilisation and reconstruction of communities globally, but what happens...
#StateCapture: “I feel like not paying my taxes because of the...
As more allegations of corruption and state capture emerge from the media and in books like Jacques Pauw’s The President's Keepers, frustration with issues...
Budget Speech: Will It Be Ramaphosa Or Zuma Flavoured?
Finance minister Malusi Gigaba will almost certainly deliver the 2018 budget speech on Wednesday afternoon. This, despite mounting rumours of a cabinet reshuffle where...
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...
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...
West Africa has high levels of Illicit Financial Flows but what...
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development released a report on illicit activities in West African states. The report, titled Illicit Financial Flows: The...
‘People are protesting because we are living in suffocated spaces’
While South Africa celebrates its youth, those living in Freedom Park, south of Johannesburg, feel forgotten by the government. They are angered by the...
Individualised Activism With No Structural Analysis Offers Only Half Solutions
At the first Oslo Freedom Forum held on African soil, activists from around the world shared stories of working to try and overcome authoritarianism...
Delhi professor ends hunger strike as government agrees to land negotiations
After 54 days of protesting and 25 days of fasting, GB Pant Government Engineering College professor Joshil Abraham and students have won a major...
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...
As Long As The Powerful Can Detain Life With Impunity All...
International Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an international series of events that seek to raise awareness of Israel’s apartheid system over the Palestinian people...
The DA and the EFF On The “Gupta stooge†And His...
It’s all eyes on the finance minister Malusi Gigaba and the budget speech he is expected to deliver on Wednesday afternoon. The minister is...
