News Flash #ShutdownSA: what is currently happening
The South African National Defense Force (SANDF) has now been deployed to assist the police to stop the civil unrest. However, destruction and violence...
Showmax’s Devilsdorp smashes viewing records and launches a companion podcast
Showmax has launched Devilsdorp: The Official Companion Podcast, presented by Nicole Engelbrecht of True Crime South Africa. It’s South Africa’s first victim-focused true-crime podcast....
Ukuthwala: the sex trafficking scandal devastating rural South Africa
“Back home in the Eastern Cape, ukuthwala is normal and has always been, so long as one has the means to pay lobola and...
Robbery down in KZN, but Berea remains a crime hotspot
Residents living in and around Berea, Durban are raising concerns over criminal activities plaguing the area, where people are being targeted and robbed in...
Why The Protests? Education Is Still Not Free
The cracks within the government's free education plan are showing. While the policy increased access to higher learning, it also introduced numerous administrative issues...
Malls as the site of the “new apartheid”
In Dr. Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh’s new book, The New Apartheid, he unpacks how apartheid never ended in South Africa. Instead it just reinvented itself and...
Jacques Pauw’s Our Poisoned Land: An Extract
In his compelling narrative style, Jacques Pauw picks up where he left off in The Presidents Keepers. Our Poisoned Land: Living in the Shadows...
Legal toolkit for student protesters in South Africa
On Tuesday the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (Seri) released a legal and practical guide to student protests. It is a user-friendly guide...
The DA’s “Law & Order” Policies Won’t Fix The Cape Flats
COMMENT
Editor's note: on 11 July 2019, the minister of police Bheki Cele announced that President Cyril Ramaphosa had approved the deployment of the South...
The Terrorist Album Marked People For Death
Jacob Dlamini was due to fly down to South Africa from New Jersey for promotions for his new book, The Terrorist Album. However, with...
NEWSFLASH: One person killed as police use force to disperse Wits...
One person was shot and killed amidst ongoing student protest action outside the Braamfontein campus of the University of Witwatersrand.
While details remain sketchy, one...
Petition: In Solidarity with Students #Asinamali #EndAusterity #FreeEducation
In solidarity with students across the country, we, the undersigned, condemn the brutal murder of a 36-year old bystander who was shot and killed...
Ziyanda Stuurman asks: “Can we be safe?” and “how” in new...
Safety and policing are major issues for all people living in South Africa but not always equally. Policing, safety and criminality are racially loaded,...
The SAPS is too caught up in its own contradictions to...
The lockdown protests in Cape Town offered us many laughs but it also showed that the police do know how to approach protests with...
Danger from above: rocks thrown off bridges is an increasing robbery...
Drivers in northern KwaZulu-Natal are familiar with the trend of rocks thrown at cars from bridges. This is a robbery tactic that has been...
Fundraiser For Collins Khosa Family
Collins Khosa was one of the first casualties of the COVID-19 lockdown. Khosa from Alexandra, Johannesburg was killed on Easter Friday following a clash...
By-laws that govern urban farming need to find common ‘soil’ for...
Djo BaNkuna aka “The Cabbage Bandit” was threatened with arrest for having a vegetable garden on the pavement in front of his home. He...
Kamala Harris: Representation does not equal better policies
On Saturday evening, news sites in the United States of America (USA) announced that Joe Biden would be the next president of the country....
Cape Town taxi route dispute remains unresolved
After two weeks of taxi violence in Cape Town, the situation has reportedly de-escalated. Daylin Mitchell, the provincial minister of transport, suspended the disputed...
Mthokozisi Ntumba who was killed by police at Wits protest was...
Mthokozisi Ntumba was killed by police during a protest outside Wits University this week. Following his death, the police minister Bheki Cele and other...
