Victims of Sexual Violence in Sudan Deserve Justice
COMMENT
Today, as we commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, we demand accountability for sexual crimes committed in Sudan,...
Court halts mining company’s bullying-tactic evictions in KZN
A mining company has been making an attempt to evict a community from its land in the northern KwaZulu-Natal town of Dannhauser and to...
Israel Refused To Let Ghanaian MP Ras Mubarak Into Palestine
Ghanaian Member of Parliament Ras Mubarak was denied entry into the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) by Israel. Mubarak was invited to speak at the...
SANDF Attempt To Use Police To Evict Marievale Residents
On 9 May, the Pretoria High Court ruled that the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) would need to vacate the former army base...
Equal Education and Doron Isaacs: Setting The Record Straight
As former employees of Equal Education (EE), who recently left our positions, we have been deeply troubled by the release of former High Court...
Disconnect Between Business And State Contributed To Marikana Massacre
COMMENT
The Marikana massacre, in which 34 striking mineworkers were shot dead by police on 16 August 2012, was a tragic and historic event in...
#JusticeForNoura: CSVR Condemns Death Sentence For Abuse Victim
"We reject the verdict given to Noura Hussein for the reason that in our view Noura should not be treated as a criminal but...
From Andries Zwane to Andries Tatane – Repression, Austerity, and A...
Amidst the last few months of turbulent parliamentary politics and fierce leadership battles within the ruling ANC, bitter struggles on the forgotten streets, classrooms...
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...
They destroyed his home. Then his case was thrown out of...
On November 27 the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (Seri) filed heads of argument in an application for leave to appeal the Durban...
Released Marikana activist says Ramaphosa and police must be arrested
On 2 August, one of the 14 arrested Marikana activists, Napoleon Webster, held a press conference along with the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South...
Socio-Political Unrest In Anglophone Region of Cameroon
The colonisation of the Southern Cameroons, or the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, by La Republique du Cameroun, has been long and violent. PATRICK AGEJO...
We cannot stay silent when justice is whisked away on a...
In light of the controversy surrounding Grace Mugabe’s visit to South Africa, and speedy departure, Mohau Bosiu says that we as Africans must hold...
#ApartheidBanks: Still Waiting For Justice
UPDATE: Authorities in Belgium and Luxembourg are refusing to investigate apartheid economic crimes, the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) said in a statement...
Zackie Achmat Doesn’t Get Reverse Onus
On The Eusebius McKaiser Show on Wednesday, we finally got to hear the voice behind the man accused of protecting accused sexual predator and...
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...
Peacekeeper as predator: when sexual abuse by UN forces runs rife
UN peacekeepers are notorious for sexually assaulting the vulnerable people they are meant to protect. But why isn’t the world raising a bigger stink...
Drawing the line between corporal punishment and abuse in parenting
UPDATE: The Constitutional Court upholds a judgment which says spanking your child is illegal.
al.UPDATE: On 19 October 2017, a judge in the Johannesburg High...
Ali Abunimah: Palestine Needs Global Solidarity To Overcome Its Apartheid
South Africans may not be a military superpower or an economic superpower in global terms but it is a moral superpower - and it...
Johannesburg South Residents Embark On Roll-On Community Action
Residents of areas in the south of Johannesburg including Eldorado Park, Freedom Park, Slovo Park, Lehae, and Soweto have embarked on a wide-scale service...
