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...
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...
Prioritising youth unemployment at the State of the Nation Address
The State of the Nation Address (SONA) will be the seventh delivered by President Ramaphosa. It is a critical time to address the country,...
Why Obama’s Speech Did Not Give Us Feels
You could hear a pin drop as former US president Barack Obama delivered the 16th annual Nelson Mandela lecture at the Wanderers Stadium on...
The Daily Vox’s take on the defining issues of #LGE2021
There are now 11 days left for the 2021 local elections. Political parties are rounding up their campaigns and doing a final push to...
RhodesMustFall on 702: In defence of Nomboniso Gasa
Rhodes lecturer VASHNA JAGARNATH explains why Nombonisa Gasa's engagement of Wanelisa Xaba on #RhodesMustFall is an example of the rigorous debate and engagement that...
Healthcare workers reflect on their Covid vaccine experiences
There was a sense of jubilation as people around South Africa in mid February as we watched nurse Zoliswa Gidi-Dyosi become the first person...
Want to have your say in the vote of no confidence?...
Tuesday afternoon’s secret ballot looms, but many are doubtful that the ANC MPs will vote against Zuma. Parliament needs 50 ANC MPs to vote...
#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...
Here’s what mayors and councillors are supposed to do
Eligible voters on November 1 will go to the polls to vote for public representatives at the municipal council and ward councillors. These are...
The potential for public green spaces in combating emissions within coal...
Activists and organisations working in and around public green spaces have often remarked how public green spaces are often treated as an afterthought or...
Scorecard for #LGE2021party manifestos
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Democratic Alliance (DA), and the Good Party have published their manifestos. Election campaigning has kicked into high gear for...
There’s a call to delay the analogue television switch-off. Here’s why.
For the past six months or so, the government has been sending SMSes encouraging people to go digital. It is part of their plan...
How Cyrildene’s Derrick Avenue transformed into Chinatown
Walking down Derrick Avenue in Cyrildene on a Tuesday morning will make you think you are walking down a street in a Chinese city....
Meron Estefanos: I See People Suffering And Its Just My Duty...
Meron Estefanos works tirelessly to aid and raise awareness about the plight of Eritrean refugees. The Swedish-based Eritrean human rights activist and journalist hosts...
FMF 2021: Historic debt, the missing middle and free education explained
The Daily Vox has put together 10 questions we want to answer to better understand Fees Must Fall 2021 – not just as the...
The ANC Gets Weird In Elections Videos
A video circulating on social media showing model Rethabile Lethoko campaigning for the African National Congress (ANC) has raised many questions. Social media users...
The importance of World AIDS Day
HIV/AIDS remains a major public health issue that affects millions of people worldwide. There were almost 37.7 million people globally living with HIV...
Palestinian Water Expert: SA Does Not Need Israeli Water Expertise
The water crisis in Cape Town is due to mismanagement, water expert and Palestinian citizen of Israel Mustafa Abu Raiya said in a Facebook...
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...
