The List: 5 organisations that work with refugee rights in SA
June 20 marked World Refugee Day. It is an international day meant to honour refugees and displaced people all around the world. In 2022,...
NSFAS: ‘We’re Ready For 2020’
On Wednesday, the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas) briefed parliament on the scheme’s readiness for the 2020 academic year. NSFAS Administrator Dr. Randall...
What exactly does non-racialism mean in 2020
During the Democratic Alliance’s September policy conference, the party adopted an economic redress policy that targets disadvantage, rather than race. They said this was...
New Protests For Accommodation At UNISA And Security At NMU
Students from the University of South Africa (UNISA) and Nelson Mandela University (NMU) are protesting. At Unisa, students protested this past week over accommodation...
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...
This is what JZ must answer for
“No one has told me what I have done wrong. No one has been able to furnish what I’ve done. If I’ve done something...
The Bachelorette SA: Qiniso van Damme is doing the chasing
We take reality television for granted expecting it to only be scripted scenes and no real emotions. The Bachelorette may be staged from the...
Get Applying! 7 Scholarship And Learnerships To Check Out
It’s that time of the year. The new year is almost upon us and it’s time for new opportunities. Companies, universities and more have...
Students launch legal challenge to NSFAS time limit rule
Students are calling on the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) and the department of higher education (DHET) to suspend a decision to decline...
Five Quotes From Nelson Mandela On Land
The dispossession of the black inhabitants of their land was an apartheid era strategy that began with the colonisation of South Africa. Without land,...
“Tawedes” to an origin language as South Africa gets its first...
Some people may consider KhoiKhoi a forgotten language - but in reality, it’s used across South Africa every day. Words like dagga (“cannabis”), and...
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....
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...
The environmental impact of the Amazon development in Cape Town, South...
The Amazon Africa development in Cape Town has been one of the most contentious fights in recent South African history. What started out as...
The calls for Basic Income Grant, explained
On October 12, the C19 People's Coalition Cash Transfers Working Group and the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) issued a demand to the government...
UKZN Holds Firm On Zulu Language Policy
The University of KwaZulu-Natal is holding firm on its policy of compulsory Zulu language courses for undergraduates, despite some students having concerns about it.
In...
The VAT Increase is an Assault On The Poor And Lower-Income...
South Africa is a highly unequal society and a unilateral increase on the least progressive tax component – Value Added Tax (VAT) – is...
The Social Dilemma: The technology that connects us also controls us
The Social Dilemma is a Netflix documentary-drama hybrid that shows how dominant and largely unregulated social media companies manipulate users by harvesting personal data,...
What does the National Youth Development Agency do?
On November 10, president Cyril Ramaphosa appointed a new board for the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA). Asanda Luwaca was also appointed as the...
[REVIEW] Angeliena on Netflix is as kitschy as it is kak
Netflix has reported that western audiences love South African content. These audiences are three times more likely to travel here, after watching a local...
