Keep calm and let the students disrupt injustice: a response to...
As township struggle seeps into elite spaces such as the university, many privileged academics and university managers have become terrified of what they perceive...
Inequality of opportunity also matters
The gospel of growth continues to be touted by many as the cure-all to South Africa’s economic woes - be they unemployment, poverty or...
“In those few hours, we felt like we could breatheâ€
With #ForBlackGirlsOnly Johannesburg just around the corner, racist and sexist assaults on the necessity of a safe space for black women abound. KABURA NGANGA...
Across the world, income and wealth inequality continue to rise
The damning statistics in the latest Oxfam global inequality report have many talking. MUSA MANZA explains what it means for South Africa, and what...
Are the Proteas in crisis or just lost in transition?
The South African cricket team was left licking their wounds after losing the Sunfoil test series against England. This time around, the loss cannot...
What Adam Habib forgets about his time as a student activist
Adam Habib recently penned an open letter to academics concerned about security measures taken at Wits University over the past week. HEINRICH BÖHMKE reminds us of...
Hashtag, power to the people
We've become accustomed to seeing hashtags everywhere - from adverts to protest placards. TSHEPOÂ RAMONYALUOE ponders the ability of hashtags to change the course of...
Why are unpaid internships still a thing?
This week, a Cape Town-based fashion editor posted a tweet advertising a week-long unpaid internship. The idea of interns funding themselves for the time...
#FeesMustFall: Why a NSFAS review is sensible
When #FeesMustFall protests first hit South Africa last year, writer MONAKO DIBETLE wasn't convinced they would have much of an effect. But he was...
“We are more than drugs, gangsters and gold teeth”
Eldorado Park has become synonymous with drugs dens and gangsterism. Journalist MAXINE BECKET shares her experience of reporting in one of South Africa's drug...
Looking ahead: The death of the rainbow and the rise of...
It took a fed-up Chumani Maxwele throwing faeces at the John Cecil Rhodes statue in on the University of Cape Town’s Upper Campus to...
The battle for equal education starts long before university
SA student movements have focused on transformation in higher education, with a particular focus on diversity and an Afrocentric curriculum but KOKETSO MOETI thinks...
Six protest songs that are anthems for revolution in SA
The student protests that swept the country this year were punctuated by the singing of struggle songs often older than the students themselves. With...
How the Taj hotel tried to keep the Kaapse Klopse away
If you know anything about Cape Town, you know that the minstrel parade or "Kaapse Klopse", as we prefer to call them, has become an inherent part of...
All the reasons why the #ZumaMustFall protests should have happened a...
If these #ZumaMustFall supporters were principled and not opportunistic - this campaign would have happened a long time ago - not a year and...
Mr President, just tell us what you’re thinking
Political analyst EBRAHIM FAKIR joins the rest of the country in asking what just happened to our finance ministry.
Distance they say, sometimes gives perspective....
Seven WTF moments from Jacob Zuma’s presidency
Jacob Zuma's presidency has been filled with lots of surprises, in many instances leaving South Africans and the world bewildered. Here's seven times in...
We can only end gender violence if we stop making excuses...
If we are to end violence against womyn* and children, we need to stop making excuses for men, writes GULSHAN KHAN.
It was during the...
Dear black man, do better
Some men are quick to speak out against racism, but perpetuate sexism and rape culture at every turn. PONTSHO PILANE is sick of it.
“Comrades,...
The girls aren’t alright, thanks for asking
The much derided department of women has put its foot in its mouth again, this time as part of its 16 days of activism...
