March to Gupta compound planned to protest corruption in the coal...
The Break Free from Fossil Fuels Campaign has the Gupta family in its crosshairs. According to 350 Africa.org, they represent the damaging system that...
The ANC – and government – seem to have a listening...
The violence that has accompanied protests related to the upcoming local elections has often emerged from situations in which citizens, and in most cases,...
2019: A Year With No Religious Gatherings in Indian side of...
The streak of visiting Hazratbal to offer 12 consecutive pre-dawn prayers was broken. Wasim Rashid (29) could not make it to the shrine that...
The SADC Wrap: Zimbabwe hosts pricey SADC Summit, with Mugabe...
Each week award-winning journalist KRISTEN VAN SCHIE brings you all the news that’s worth knowing from across the SADC region. Here is this week’s SADC Wrap.
Southern...
A snapshot of the Cape Minstrel Carnival history
The annual Cape Minstrel New Year Parade has taken place every year on the 2nd of January through the streets of Cape Town’s CBD....
SA u23 relishing Olympic challenge
South African under-23 coach Owen da Gama has stressed the fact his team needs to be mentally ready if they want to do well...
Journalists are being targeted in #TshwaneUnrest
The attention of South Africa has been on Tshwane as protests over the nomination of Thoko Didiza as the ANC’s mayoral candidate in the...
Uzalo season 2: a web of lies, backstabbing and murder
The second season of Uzalo’s story line hasn’t been clear enough since it first aired. The first season explored the secret of the switched...
Life in the debris of the eNsimbini settlement
The eThekwini municipality says it is determined to continue demolishing what it terms “illegal†settlements in and around Durban. But what about the people for whom these settlements are home? By Rumana Akoob for SOUTH AFRICA VOTES 2014.
The rise of Grace Mugabe adds a new twist to Zimbabwe’s...
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe makes her grand entrance into politics following her recent nomination as national secretary of the ruling...
Part II: Why are Muslims not talking about the horror...
Since March 2015, around 4,000 people have been killed in Yemen after a Saudi-led alliance began airstrikes on the country. Humanitarians describe the events...
The latest on the #TerrorArrests
Activists from CAGE Africa say that due process was ignored when Brendon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie were arrested on terror-related charges on 9 July.
#ThulsieTwins Defence...
The Yearning that makes you question your dreams
Mohale Mashigo’s book, The Yearning, is one that takes the reader on a journey into the life of a young woman who has an...
This is why your kids must go see The Jungle Book
This week Rudyard Kipling's master-colonial adventure "The Jungle Book" was released at all good cinemas across the civilised world. THE DAILY VOX TEAM round...
Eight Books to help you understand what’s up with Palestine and...
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has quite generated an incredible amount of literature and if you’re new to the history, it can be difficult to figure...
Do SA’s service delivery protests portend an ‘African Spring’?
With over five protests a day, South Africa is sometimes referred to as the "protest capital" of the world.
“Is there a radical re-alignment underway in South African...
Seven reasons why Syrian refugees have fled to Europe
More than 4 million Syrian refugees are in countries neighbouring Syria, but recent months have seen an increase in the number of Syrians seeking...
The Storming – a transcontinental story about postcolonial angst
The ship was rocking, the wooden floor was creaking and the audience could sense the trepidation. The Storming, an adaption of Aimé Césaire’s Une...
Project Hoopoe is here to incite revolution through art
If you've taken a walk through the tunnel between East and West Campus at Wits University, you've likely seen graffiti by anonymous artistic collective,...
Here’s everything you need to know about International Civil Society Week
This week some 900 activists and members of civil society from 100 countries will be meeting in Bogota, Colombia for World Civil Society Week...
