Illicit Financial Flows Have Direct Impact On Ordinary People
Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs), base erosion, profit shifting (BEPS) and wage evasion is a growing problem that is causing huge capital resource leakages in...
10 Years On, The People In Isipingo Transit Camp Wait For...
"Nothing hurts like seeing your family and community members perish one after another due to TB and road accidents. We were dumped in this...
Benin Repeals Social Media Tax After Protests
After 10 days of mobilisation with more than 500,000 people being affected by the social media tax, the government in Benin have decided to...
The Steep Price Of Being Family To Abahlali’s Most Famous Activist
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S'bu Zikode, the founding president of the radical shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo has had to be in hiding numerous times after...
Nyanga, SA’s Murder Capital, Still Only Has 1 Police Station
Nyanga, Cape Town, still registers the highest number of murders in South Africa, according to the latest crime statistics. Meanwhile, a grassroots campaign for...
SADC EPA Implementation: Understanding the Role of Business and Civil Society
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) was signed in June 2016 and has been provisionally implemented since October 2016. Various...
Youth Confident EFF Will Be Triumphant In 2019 Elections
The Economic Freedom Fighters are flourishing on university campuses across South Africa, according to the leader Julius Malema. The organisation's student structures are making...
Understanding Human Trafficking in South Africa
Of late, social media has been awash with pictures, videos and warnings about human trafficking. But it isn't a new problem in South Africa....
#JoburgFire: NEHAWU Members Warned Officials 3 Years Ago Over Unsafe Building
Three firefighters lost their lives on Wednesday while battling a fire that broke out the Gauteng provincial human settlements and cooperative governance building. One...
Kgalema Motlanthe, Thuli Madonsela, Pallo Jordan On The Prospects For A...
At the end of August, Cape Town's Community House welcomed the former public protector Thuli Madonsela, now the social justice chair at the Law...
SA Students: “Grant FMF Activists Blanket Amnesty”
It's been almost a year since then-president Jacob Zuma announced free tertiary education, legitimising the call of South African students. However, a number of...
FMF Activist Calls For Fees Must Fall TRC, All Protest-Related Charges...
During the 2015 and 2016 Fees Must Fall (FMF) protests, many student activists were charged with public violence and destruction of property. Even after...
NSFAS Is On Its Knees
The chairperson of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas) Sizwe Nxasana announced on 9 August that he was resigning from the funding body....
We All Have To Demand Justice For Marikana
"Marikana could happen again" was the powerful message that emerged from a film screening and panel discussion which took place at the Chalsty Centre....
New “Nelson Mandela Rules” For Prisons – Will It Lead To...
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) launched the 2015 revised version of the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, also known as...
Here’s What #TheTotalShutdown Movement Is Demanding
August 1 marked the day thousands of womxn and gender nonconforming people marched throughout South Africa and neighbouring countries. The march was an intersectional...
“Information Technology Has Allowed Me To Explore Creative Thinking”
Hailing from Inanda Township, north Durban, the 34-year-old information technologist Xolani Phakathi has not only made a name for himself; but he has also...
Total Shutdown Organisers: We Will Not Be Intimidated Or Distracted
The Total Shutdown organisers welcome that the statement issued by the office of the National Commissioner of the South African Police Service (SAPS), announcing...
Case Against Total Shutdown GP Canned By Police Top Brass
UPDATE: In a media statement issued by the office of the National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, on Monday afternoon, National Commissioner...
In Pictures: The #TotalShutdown March In Pretoria
Spirits were heightened as womxn* gathered at the old Putco depot in Pretoria on Wednesday before the Total Shutdown march began. We were singing...
