What I Learned About Freedom At The Oslo Freedom Forum In...
The Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) is a platform for struggles that have been opaqued and ignored, a gathering for disruption in the name of...
#EECoverUp: Zackie Achmat Is Taking M&G To Press Ombudsman
Prominent activist Zackie Achmat said on Wednesday that he will be filing a complaint against the Mail & Guardian with the press ombudsman for...
South Africa’s borders may become even more unwelcoming to asylum seekers
Asylum seekers may face greater difficulties entering South Africa once Parliament enacts legislation to create a new agency that will have full control of...
Mandela-Gandhi Peace Walk Comes To SA
A group of seven peace activists from various countries including South Africa, India and Japan have embarked on a peace walk across South Africa...
The Rohingya crisis: a humanitarian disaster in Myanmar
Myanmar is home to an estimated 1.1 million Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim minority. Numerous sources both inside and outside the country have reported horrific...
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...
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...
Access to healthcare remains a challenge for migrant mothers and children...
As vulnerable migrants and undocumented people continue to face serious difficulties in accessing maternal and child healthcare in Gauteng hospitals, Doctors Without Borders (MSF)...
“In The Infrastructure And The Law, There Is Apartheid Towards The...
The year 2018 marks 70 years since the declaration of the state of Israel and the horrendous acts it committed to cement its territorial...
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...
Poverty, power and greed leave people with albinism prone to black...
"Growing up, we were told that people with albinism are different from us and the common perception was that they don't die, they disappear,"...
Durban’s queer community, assemble! It’s Pride time
This Saturday, the Gugu Dlamini Park will host the 7th annual Durban Pride and Liberation Parade, which celebrates the queer community of KwaZulu-Natal.
Durban is...
Sub-Saharan migrants traded like merchandise in Libya
Black bodies are being traded at auctions in Libya, and the world has been slow to respond. It’s become such a part of Libyan...
KZN Health’s Prayer Solution For Healthworker And Student Deaths
On Monday, 26 March, the KwaZulu-Natal member of the executive council (MEC) for health Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo held a prayer meeting in Addington Hospital,...
Life Esidimeni: More Than Money, We Need Proper Mental Health Care
"Umuntu ngumuntu nagbantu". It takes a village to raise a child. For many African families, this includes aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins. So, when...
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...
#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...
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...
Marievale community back in court to stop the army’s unlawful evictions
Marievale residents will be back in court later this week after the High Court heard and heard an application to interdict evictions from a...
Nine ways to be a better South African this Mandela Day
Mandela Day is a time to give and work on nation building. uTata worked his whole life to erase the rift between South Africans...
