Joburg Zoo To Get Second Elephant In Spite Of Public Outcry
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The Joburg Zoo continues to make unilateral decisions regarding Lammie the elephant’s future while the DA led City council turns a blind eye. The...
Obama: An Antithesis Of Mandela’s Values
As South Africans, we are ashamed that the war mongering human rights abuser, Barack Obama has been called upon to honour a man whose...
Disconnect Between Business And State Contributed To Marikana Massacre
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The Marikana massacre, in which 34 striking mineworkers were shot dead by police on 16 August 2012, was a tragic and historic event in...
Humans are just not built for monogamy
When we are children, we are told that one day we will grow up, get married, and when we're ready (to have children) –...
Open letter to Pravin Gordhan urges him to take responsibility in...
In an open letter to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, head of department of anthropology at Wits, Dr Kelly Gillespie, expressed her disappointment that Gordhan...
Megan Rapinoe And The Liberators In France
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A record number of spectators watched the Fifa Women’s World Cup, an entertaining spectacle that will only grow the game. Despite this, the fight...
The Law Behind The Marievale Evictions: SANDF Was Never Deployed
With the residents of Marievale appearing in the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday, 9 May to have their housing rights protected, TIM FISH HODGSON...
Right Of Reply: SACAP Response To Luke Sadler’s Article
On 30 May 2018, The Daily Vox published an opinion piece about a LGBTQIA+ student's experience of the South African College of Applied Psychology's...
SA: Call For Young Women To Mobilise On Freedom Day
When we gather in elitist spaces as social justice activists in the fight against patriarchy and gender based violence, capitalism and race, with the...
On Cheryl Zondi, and how the justice system fails survivors
On Monday the trial of Nigerian Pastor Timothy Omotoso began in the Eastern Cape High Court in Port Elizabeth. First witness, 22-year-old Cheryl Zondi,...
Land Expropriation: How The Constitution Will Be Changed
The Constitutional Review Committee adopted a recommendation to parliament that section 25 of the Constitution needs to be amended "to make explicit what is...
Solidarity For Workers Unionised By The Willbes Haitian S.A.
The historical legacy of Haitian rebellion in the political imagination of revolutionaries in Africa, the diaspora, and across the world cuts to core of...
Public Employment Programmes Can Turn The GBV Tide
Communities and public employment programmes in particular, have a critical role to play in the fight against gender-based violence, writes PALESA MATABOGE.
This is...
Marievale Community Awaits Court Ruling Against Forced Evictions By SANDF
On Thursday, 3 May, members of a Marievale community, a community of approximately 600 people (150 families), approached the Pretoria High Court seeking...
After Women’s Month, Women And Children Are Still Dying
It is the end of Women's Month in South Africa, and for me it still feels like being a woman in South Africa is...
#ChristChurch: To hate or not to hate?
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#ChristChurch. Fifty congregants murdered. Dozens wounded. The martyrs are Muslim worshippers and the murderer is an Australian born, white supremacist terrorist. The notion of...
Ripples from San Juan: Fighting against austerity and modern-day colonialism
As word of an indefinite strike at the University of Puerto Rico over austerity plans breaks international media headlines, one cannot help but read...
A Tale Of Two Koreas
It has been hailed as "a new milestone", "a historic occasion" and a "roadmap to peace". But this is not the first political salvo...
A love letter to Faki Moshoeu
Wanelisa Xaba imagines what life in a deeply divided South Africa would have been like for 16-year-old Matlhomola "Faki: Moshoeu, had he not lost...
Caught in the Spider’s Web: Radical Economic Transformation and Authoritarian Populism
The emergence of the campaign and associated political rhetoric under the banner of “Radical Economic Transformation†(RET) devolved from the Zuma administration. Over the...
