Africa’s student movements: history sheds light on modern activism
On 9 March 2015, a student hurled faeces at a statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes. This act led to the statue’s removal. It also inspired the […]
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How environmental health workers can help climate change mitigation
All the evidence tells us that the world’s changing climate will affect more than the environment. It will have serious consequences for people’s health too. Southern Africa is […]
In Cambodia, Chinese workers earn more, but pay the price with diminished labour rights
When dusk falls over the city, the diggers roars to life. The small team of workers laying the base of the 46-storey Morgan Tower in […]
The future of labour is female
Women have put on yellow vests and joined the demonstrations. Women who do double-shifts at home and at work to keep the creaking social state going for […]
What to expect as 84 million Nigerians go to the polls
Nigerians go to the polls on February 16 in the first of two sets of elections to choose the president, national assembly and state legislators. […]
In Zimbabwe, an unpopular government is lashing out because “it fears its own people”
With at least 17 unarmed civilians killed by the military in the recent spate of anti-government protests, and many more injured, abducted, raped and imprisoned, labour […]
Undertaking the crucial task of bringing cryptography to activists
A group of journalists and activists slowly trickle into a room. They take a seat. Some talk amongst each other, others play around with their […]
Reinvesting in politics and citizenship: the experience of the yellow vests
Saturday, 1 December 2018, Paris. The morning is just getting started and already the chic Champs-Élysées district is filled with the deafening sound of grenades. […]
Two decades of labour flexibilisation in Mexico has left workers facing “drastic” precarity
Artemis is now 60 years old and started working when she was a teenager. She has been in formal employment for 38 years, with a […]
“Since January 2010, I have had to live on the streets, sleeping on the ground in public squares, begging, to be able to cover my […]
South African diplomacy on Zimbabwe can remain quiet – but it must get tough
Cries of moral outrage have greeted the brutal crackdown by the Zimbabwean security forces on nationwide protests sparked by a sudden, massive, government-ordained hike in the price of […]
South Africa’s clandestine miners defend their work (and want it to be legal)
Protected from the rain and the sun by plastic sheets tied to sticks, dozens of muscle-bound youngsters apply their strength to making heavy metal cylinders […]
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