Poverty Shaming has no place in South Africa
The unemployment rate in South Africa is at 32.6%. The pandemic worsened employment opportunities as many industries were affected adversely. Added to this are...
As Long As The Powerful Can Detain Life With Impunity All...
International Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an international series of events that seek to raise awareness of Israel’s apartheid system over the Palestinian people...
The Blinkbonnie Road Protests: A symptom of Durban’s housing crisis
Fear, antagonism and plight of poverty is all that lingers for the shack dwellers of Blinkbonnie Road in Cato Manor, whose lives appear to...
Ukuthwala: the sex trafficking scandal devastating rural South Africa
“Back home in the Eastern Cape, ukuthwala is normal and has always been, so long as one has the means to pay lobola and...
France and the hijab: The problem is France
By Iram Yousuf
Earlier this morning the French Senate passed an amendment that would make it illegal for girls to wear the headscarf worn by...
Queer love blossoms in unlikely places
May 17 is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. Queer rights activist Gabriel Hoosain Khan gave the following speech at the Dutch Embassy...
“I Did Not Expect So Much Hate From My Fellow Africans”
Naomi Nseya is a nail beautician and a mother of three from Umbilo. Hailing from the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital city, Kinshasa, the...
Who is Ahed Tamimi and why should South Africans care?
The trip I took to Palestine in December 2014 granted me the opportunity to better understand what life under Israeli occupation looked and felt...
The SA Black Community Must Stand With Palestine
Concerned black marchers have called on the black community to support protests against Apartheid Israel in support of Palestine. This comes after the 14...
Zara’s no-trolley policy discriminates against child with special needs
International fashion brand Zara's no-trolley policy came under fire this week when employees at their Cresta Shopping Mall branch refused to make an exception...
These Young Activists Are Working For Safer Schools
Lays dos Santos (18) has to leave home in the early parts of the morning to go to school or work every day. Travelling...
#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...
Marievale community pickets against SANDF outside Gauteng military bases
On Wednesday, advocacy organisation Right2Know (R2K) Gauteng picketed outside three military bases in Gauteng against the evictions of Marievale community members who have been...
What exactly is ‘spatial apartheid’ and why is it still relevant?
For the past few months, the Reclaim the City campaign has been drawing attention to economic segregation and gentrification in the City of Cape...
DUT Strike: “We Do Want To Go Back To Work…â€
On Tuesday, 27 February, the deputy minister for higher education and training Buti Manamela met with the Durban University of Technology (DUT) management as...
Schoolchildren will go hungry without infrastructure for feeding schemes
Reflecting on a recent visit to a rural school in the Northern Cape, ActionAid South Africa director, Fatima Shabodien, says school feeding schemes are...
March on Durban City Hall: ‘As shack dwellers we deserve some...
Thousands of people marched to the Durban City Hall on Monday against alleged violent evictions of shack dwellers in different informal settlements around Durban....
“There is no dignity in poverty and even worse in disabled...
I was recently one of the unfortunate grant recipients who was left stranded by the government at the beginning of January. When we could...
#StopRacismAtPretoriaGirlsHigh is just one example of the frustration of black learners...
Where the blue of heaven is deepest. Every person who attended Pretoria High School for Girls knows the opening to the school song. But...
Life In A Durban Hostel Is A Nightmare
March 21 marks Human Rights Day annually, where South Africans commemorate the events of Sharpeville Massacre, however, for hostel dwellers around Durban this day...
