South Africa: Our Morally Unconscionable State the Needs Systemic Political Reform
COMMENT
South Africa, unlike most countries that fail, has not fallen prey to any nefarious outside interference or simply succumbed to the incompetence of our...
Calls For Gates Foundation To Rescind Modi Award
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced they would be awarding Indian prime minister Narendra Modi with a prestigious award. This award is...
Robert Mugabe: As Divisive In Death As He Was In Life
Robert Mugabe, the former president of Zimbabwe, has died. Mugabe was 95, and had been struggling with ill health for some time. The country’s...
10 Historical Figures Who Were Vegan Before It Was Mainstream
Haters aside, the vegan movement has exploded so much over the past few years it’s almost mainstream. Interest in the plant-based lifestyle is as...
A Year After The #TUTshooting, Students Have Safety Fears Still
One year after Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) student Katlego Monareng was killed in the midst of Student Representative Council (SRC) elections gone awry,...
#ApartheidFlag Ruling A Non-Racialism Milestone
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The Equality Court has declared that displaying the apartheid flag without good reason constitutes hate speech. Deputy judge president Phineas Mojapelo made the judgement...
SASCO Distances Itself From President Who Allegedly Took Ramaphosa Money
The South African Students Congress (Sasco) has distanced itself from its president Avela Mjajubana, who has been named in the leaked bank statements from...
The Butchers Of Marikana Won
COMMENT
What to make of the fact that the people who set the Marikana massacre in motion now sit in South Africa’s halls of power?...
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...
DUT SRC Elections: Red Berets Poised To Win Again
ANALYSIS
As student organisations gear up with campaigns for student representative council (SRC) elections at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) scheduled for August 27,...
Why Kashmir Is Still Under Lockdown
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The siege of Kashmir continues. About a week ago, the Indian government deployed over 30 000 more troops to the area which is already...
Revive ANCYL: Old ANCYL Can’t Be Replaced By ANC Seniors
A group lobbying for disbandment of ANCYL says it will give the African National Congress the last chance to sort out their contradictory politics...
The EFFSC’s Inam Kula and Mbali Zondo On Being Women In...
The newly unveiled Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (EFFSC) will soon be taking up their positions. FATIMA MOOSA and SHAAZIA EBRAHIM spoke to incoming...
SRC At DUT Alleges Corruption Over Suspensions
“Everything that is currently happening is politics at play because more of our students have been suspended and management is delaying the hearing until...
Who Is Really To Blame For SA’s Jobs Crisis?
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President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recent admission that South Africa is facing punishing job losses is in direct contradiction with the promises he made...
ANC Responds to ‘Revive ANCYL’: “The Youth League Has Been Liquidated”
Ace Magashule, the secretary-general of the African National Congress, has responded to the ‘Revive ANCYL’ lobby group which has been pushing for the current...
Mandla Shikwambana: Department of Higher Education Is The Problem
The Daily Vox speaks to Mandla Shikhwambana, the new president of the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (EFFSC), on his campus activism plans.
Shikwambana was...
#IStandWithIlhan: Ilhan Omar Pushes Pro-BDS Bill Despite Harsh Criticism
NEWS ANALYSIS
United States congresswoman Ilhan Omar has been through the most, but she won’t be deterred. Despite United States President Donald Trump’s racist attacks...
Born Frees and Nelson Mandela: The Kids Don’t Understand Their Father
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The Born Free Generation is 25 years old. I will be 25 in September. We were the ones who were born in 1994, the...
What You Need To Know About The New EFFSC President Mandla...
The assembly of the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (EFFSC) elected leadership at the weekend, and Mandla Shikwambana, a former University of Venda SRC...
