At a teahouse in the tiny village of Karaibrahimler in Turkey’s lush north-western Biga Peninsula, older male residents sitting at a table debate with young […]
Major private prison firms CoreCivic and GEO Group stand to lose 72 percent — about US$1.9 billion — of their private financing as major banks […]
Despite the geopolitical importance of Iraq’s oil, and the central role that oil played in its invasion by a US-led coalition in March 2003, 16 […]
To mark her 45th birthday on 16 June 2019, Ugandan academic and activist Dr Stella Nyanzi released 45 poems from the Luzira Maximum Security Prison, […]
With their faces wrapped in traditional white scarves, they spend hours in silence at the gates of the country’s prisons: more than 45 days outside […]
Aurelia’s husband used to beat her at night while her daughters were asleep. In the morning the girls would notice her bruises and ask if […]
This is an edited extract from a chapter in the recently published The state of the nation: poverty & inequality: diagnosis, prognosis and responses. It’s well-established […]
After getting stuck on a train to Pretoria, President Ramaphosa got cornered by commuters protesting passenger rail services in Cape Town.
Recent power cuts and the announcement that South Africa’s power utility Eskom will be receiving R23billion (about USD$1.5billion) a year in government support for the foreseeable future are symptomatic […]
Last week, Nehawu and other witnesses raised concerns about victimisation of staff and poor working conditions at the Khayelitsha District Hospital.
South Africans have for decades been hoodwinked by unscrupulous pastors. Recently a spate of incredible “miracles” by these self-styled, flashy miracle men offering healing and […]
SAFTU believes that the budget speech that will be delivered on Wednesday will not be different to the ones before it.
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