Xolobeni: Gwede Mantashe Is A Class Traitor
COMMENT
On Thursday, the North Gauteng High Court ruled that mining companies and the government must obtain full and informed consent from communities before granting...
Fattis evictees: Fattis was not a hijacked building, we owned property...
Former residents of Fattis Mansion, a dilapidated block of flats in the Johannesburg CBD have told the Daily Vox that they are upset about...
100 Mandela Moments: A Review
July 18, 2018 marks the centenary of Nelson Mandela. The first democratically elected president of the Republic of South Africa would have turned 100...
Anti-migrant Sentiment Fuelling Durban Evictions, Abahlali Claim
Abahlali baseMjondolo on Monday returned to the Durban High Court to apply for another court interdict against eThekwini Municipality. This was following the city's...
NDZ’s Radical Economic Transformation vs CR17’s New Deal: a summary
The two front-runners for incoming president of the African National Congress, Cyril Ramaphosa (CR17) and Nkosazana-Dlamini Zuma (NDZ), have outlined their policy positions should...
Mashaba points finger at civil society: #JhbFire “was bound to happen”
Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba has once again shown anti-poor sentiment, this time in the wake of the devastating fire at the Cape York building...
Mozambican farmers fight plan to turn savannah into soybean farm
Mozambican farmers and activists are fighting back against a much-touted plan to turn large tracts of savannah into soya bean farms, to supply feedstock...
Climate change is not what South Africans see as their main...
Climate change is a major threat to food production, and is displacing people and increasing the risks to health globally. Addressing climate change requires...
The other water crisis: Eastern Cape is in serious danger
The Cape water crisis has shaken South Africa. The reality that easy access to clean running water will soon be stripped from one of...
Durban: The Government Is Attempting To Evict People Living With Disabilities
"All we want is to remain at the centre, work and get our money. Our families are hungry," visually impaired Evelyn Gumede told the...
Nuclear, security, fees and the ties that bind
In 2017 South Africa has faced rising electricity costs, near drought conditions in the Western Cape, a corruption crisis with the state social grant...
#AccommodationIsLand: “We Are All Here Because We Are Black And Landless”
In the wake of an imbizo held on Wednesday at the University of Witwatersrand, students marched through the streets of Braamfontein to protest against...
OPINION: Seeing how the land lies
A month-long See Studio took place in Cape Town recently to exchange ideas, debate and develop methodologies to bring about representational equity in the...
Abahlali: We welcome the strong social dimensions of the expert panel...
The poor are systematically excluded from formal discussions in South Africa. We are usually not treated as if we are citizens, or even as...
Zimbabwe’s villagers hope for an end to Grace Mugabe’s land grab
Seventeen years ago, hundreds of families were resettled onto a lush green estate in Mazowe, a farming district 35km north of Zimbabwe’s capital. In...
No Solutions In Sight For The Rohingya, Two Years On
Sitting in a teashop in Kutupalong megacamp, Bibi Jan tugs on her sleeve. She’s covering up scars inflicted during the largest-ever episode of violence...
Gwede Mantashe Invades Xolobeni
"It felt like it was the first or second world war. We asked ourselves what the need for so many police was," Nonhle Mbuthuma...
Xolobeni Continues To Fight Against A Mine It Doesn’t Want
"In Xolobeni we live in a very traditional way that one can never be compensated for if one is ever removed from the land...
Young People Are Disillusioned By Mandela’s Pan-Africanism
Most young people do not believe former South African president Nelson Mandela was a Pan-Africanist. On the contrary, the youth are quite disillusioned about...
Marievale Evictions: The SANDF Is Still Barring Residents From Their Homes
Marievale residents have yet again been barred from returning to their homes despite a court ruling by the High Court in Johannesburg stating they...
