The Weekly Dissident: Yolisa Mazonda’s black rage against white supremacy, patriarchy...
In the Weekly Dissident today, MPHUTLANE WA BOFELO talks to Yolisa Mazonda about race and class, activism and anarchy.
MwB: Who is Yolisa Mazonda and what...
Can reporters find a way to make SA’s news more constructive?
"Bad news sells," or so the axiom goes but some media scholars are now challenging this narrative and questioning how the news is packaged.
Cathrine...
Marvelous Madonsela: Five cases that put the Public Protector in the...
Since her appointment as Public Protector in 2009, Thuli Madonsela has become a key feature in many political discussions in South Africa. She was...
Ebola: “The world is losing the battle to contain it”
Aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has sounded alarm bells at the UN headquarters in new York on Tuesday, warning that the Ebola virus...
Illustrating Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’
Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness drew little attention when it was first published in 1899, but eventually grew to be recognised as one of the...
The SADC Wrap: Coup or no coup? Lesotho leaves everyone scratching...
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...
SADC Wrap Special Edition: WTF is happening in #Lesotho?!
Lesotho just had a lazy weekend jol that’s looking kind of like it could be a coup. I know. What the shit, right? And...
The Weekly Dissident: Unathi Slasha’s war against the mainstream
This week MPHUTLANE WA BOFELO speaks with artist, scholar and poet Unathi Slasha.
If artist, literature scholar and poet, Unathi Slasha were to write a manifesto for...
Urban planners must prepare for more slums
Over our 20-year democracy, South Africans have struggled to improve life for people living in informal settlements. We are not alone in this -...
Five Ways “Re-blocking” Helps Improve Informal Settlements (And One Way It...
Around 1,9-million South African households are found in informal settlements, where the battle for services, safety, and healthy living conditions rages on. Among urban...
“Books will set your generation free”
“Quite a mix you got there. That’s how you know you're not reading to pass time, but reading because you love books," Chris Smit,...
Ebola expert: “The response has not been adequate.”
Washington, DC — As a fifth African country on Sunday announced Ebola deaths, Dr Thomas Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and...
Is theatre production ‘Exhibit B – The Human Zoo’ enlightening or...
The theatrical production Exhibit B – The Human Zoo claims to challenge the idea of 19th century human zoos. Instead South African theatre director Brett Bailey...
Ebola: Morbid fascination with an out-of-control disease
The Daily Vox is running a series of blogs written by DR STEFAN KRUGER, who is in Sierra Leone with Doctors Without Borders (MSF)...
Taking up the #IceBucketChallenge for ALS
It might seem strange to throw a bucket of ice water over your head in the name of charity, but for the ALS Association,...
Ebola: The magic of discharging a cured patient
The Daily Vox is running a series of blogs written by DR STEFAN KRUGER, who is in Sierra Leone with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to help...
EFF demands that Zuma #paybackthemoney [VIDEO]
Between the red uniforms, the hallway scuffles with opposition MPs and the sit-ins at the Gauteng provincial legislature, you can always count on the...
Ebola: Entire households erased one by one
The Daily Vox is running a series of blogs written by DR STEFAN KRUGER, who is in Sierra Leone with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to help...
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...
Nat Nakasa: “Finally, he has come home to us”
On Tuesday the Dube trade port, north of Durban, welcomed the remains of the iconic anti-apartheid journalist Nat Nakasa. The ceremony brought together hundreds...
