In Numbers: The Winners And Losers of #SAElections2019
NEWS ANALYSIS
As the national and provincial results counting winded down in many places around South Africa, the time arrived to take stock of the...
Flow Wellington’s Poems On Arriving In Johannesburg
Flow Wellington, (Selome Payne) is the director of self-publishing institute, Poetree Publications. She is also a published poet. Her latest poet anthology, Gau-trained tells...
Haji Mohamed Dawjee Writes What She Likes In Sorry Not Sorry
The title of Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko's compilation of writings called I Write What I Like has become a slogan of sorts. It...
If You Won’t Join Them, Start Your Own Political Party
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A record number (48) of political parties are expected to contest the 2019 national elections, according to the...
EXTRACT: But He Speaks So Well by Ivan Johnson
Journey with Ivan Johnson in this memoir of an identity crisis as the highspirited boy from a close-knit family on the Cape Flats comes...
G@tvol Capetonian: What Of The Forgotten Ones? Pt. 1
Insouciance is a characteristic that's been lodged against coloured people of the Cape for years. In April 2018, however, G@tvol Capetonian arrived to put...
EXTRACT: Robert McBride: The Struggle Continues:
Robert McBride: The Struggle Continues is the story of Robert McBride and his comrades: the substation sabotage spree, rescuing a compatriot from the hospital...
Want to have your say in the vote of no confidence?...
Tuesday afternoon’s secret ballot looms, but many are doubtful that the ANC MPs will vote against Zuma. Parliament needs 50 ANC MPs to vote...
#DefeatDayZero: Twitter has questions that Maimane didn’t answer
Defeat Day Zero is not the name of a really bad post apocalyptic superhero flick, it’s the Democratic Alliance (DA) social media campaign to...
European Governments Play Politics With Refugee Lives
On June 10, Matteo Salvini, Italy's new far-right interior minister, said he would not allow the MV Aquarius to dock on the Italian coast....
[EXTRACT] Eight Days in July: Inside the Zuma unrest that set...
In July 2021, with the imprisonment of Jacob Zuma, dramatic and violent scenes of unrest and looting unfolded in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. Piecing together...
Young people have mixed sentiments about the #CabinetReshuffle
Sabeehah Motala (22), a student and intern at Corruption Watch, was at a dinner party on Thursday evening when her work WhatsApp group lit...
Press Release – Communities to march on the Union Buildings in...
The amandla.mobi community and partners will march to the Union Buildings on February 2 2023 at 10 am to demand that the South African...
COVID-19: The Cure Could Be Worse Than The Disease For South...
Seán Mfundza Muller, University of Johannesburg
As the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 spreads worldwide, some governments have taken rapid and unprecedented action. Others, led by bigoted...
Youth Confident EFF Will Be Triumphant In 2019 Elections
The Economic Freedom Fighters are flourishing on university campuses across South Africa, according to the leader Julius Malema. The organisation's student structures are making...
The New Apartheid shatters the idea that apartheid ever ended
In Dr. Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh’s second book The New Apartheid, he examines how apartheid has reinvented itself. This book follows his first, Democracy and Delusion....
10 Books To Read For Non-Fiction November
During the month of November, National Non-Fiction November month is celebrated in the United Kingdom. It’s an annual celebration of all things factual. While...
This YouTube Series Is The Modern Day ‘I Write What I...
If you're looking for fresh YouTube content, you might want to check out #UnPolicedExpressions. Follow Nyiko Shikwambane and Naledi Chirwa as they navigate leaving...
Goodbye Ambassador Lenk, You Won’t Be Missed
As far as trolls go, Arthur Lenk, Israel's representative to Pretoria, was astutely ambassadorial. Mention Israel on Twitter and Ambassador would pop around to...
5 Things You Never Knew About Black Revolutionary Robert Sobukwe
Forty years ago on this day, February 27, Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe passed away. Sobukwe was a prominent South African political dissident who founded the...
