New Survey Shows South African Students Are Not Coping With E-learning
Youth Capital, a youth-led campaign with an Action Plan that combines data with young people’s lived stories to shift gears on youth unemployment have...
How a UBIG can support healthier kids, happier adults, and lifelong...
Universal Basic Income Guarantee Factsheet Series
Keen to learn more about a Universal Basic Income Guarantee (UBIG) but not sure where to start? Over the...
Ten times the Democratic Alliance was kak
Like most of us, I enjoy a good internet list. So there I was, reading about ten celebrity break-ups that broke us - but...
A Critique Of The Media Is Not Automatically An Attack On...
COMMENT
Dreams of Smart Cities, mass retrenchments, young people in cabinet and National Assembly, growth for the Economic Freedom Fighters and the emboldenment of the...
How to confront disinformation during #LGE2021
South Africa's municipal elections will be held on November 1, 2021. Elections are usually a time where misinformation and fake news abound. Code for...
There’s a mixed reaction to the launch of the Black First...
Andile Mnxgitama launched his Black First Land First movement on May 14 in Orlando West, Soweto. Although Mngxitama placed great emphasis that the movement...
Malema: Our Land And Jobs Now
"The clarion call is clear: Our land and jobs now! Victory is certain" said Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema said. This was...
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...
Our 2021 recommended reads
It’s that time of the year to round up the books of the year. There have been some fantastic releases in 2021 from fiction...
ATM: We Are Not A Zuma Party
More humane politics for the South African political scene says the African Transformation Movement (ATM). The party will be contesting the 2019 National Elections...
Ramaphosa Cabinet 2.0: Who’s In, Who’s Out, What It All Means
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his second cabinet reshuffle on Thursday afternoon, a change enforced by the death of the environmental affairs minister Edna Molewa,...
The Namakwa Civic Movement are Kingmakers in the Nama Khoi municipality
In the Northern Cape’s Nama Khoi Local Municipality, the Namakwa Civic Movement (NCM) received 20.84% (6519 votes) of the vote. Even though the party...
Are We Willing to Send Our Parents to Jail?
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The current trajectory of South Africa’s attempt to rebuild from the Zuma (plus the last 5 Mbeki) years, will eventually force our generation...
Graaff-Reinet has ran dry in more ways than one
Graaff-Reinet has been plagued by a drought for seven years now. It is the fifth-oldest town in South Africa situated in the Eastern Cape....
Twitter Spaces: A new means of political campaigning?
The 2021 local elections are taking place under pandemic conditions. This means political parties and independent candidates alike have had to use innovative ways...
Tolu Agbelusi on performing at the online Poetry Africa festival
We spoke to Nigerian born, London based poet, educator and lawyer Tolu Agbelusi who will be gracing the virtual stage at the Poetry Africa...
The Monkey Business of H&M and The Hokey-Pokey of the EFF!
It is fruitless to have debates about whether the H&M advert with a black kid wearing a hoodie saying “coolest monkey in the jungleâ€...
Lack-cess to education – the cycle of abuse against South African...
Seven postgraduate students from Wits University’s Critical Diversity Studies department write about the perennial funding crisis in higher education in South Africa. They argue...
SONA Debate: What The #FeesMustFall MPs Said
Former Fees Must Fall activists Nompendulo Mkhatshwa and Naledi Chirwa, now respectively African National Congress (ANC) and EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) members of...
A lesson in the ANC’s history of multiracialism and non-racialism
Nomboniso Gasa, a stand-in presenter on Radio 702, recently shut down a radio interview with Wanelisa Xaba, a spokesperson for UCT student movement Rhodes...
