Everything Must Fall is not Everything
The author argues that the film does not tell the whole story of the #FeesMustFall movement, especially how the fight for free, quality higher education had long been waged at historically black campuses.
Opinion
Why the demise of specialist reporters is a loss for any democracy
The newspaper industry in many countries is in the doldrums. Retrenchments have become the norm with experienced journalists who specialise in a particular reporting area […]
South Africa is set on fixing its economy. But will poor people benefit?
President Cyril Ramaphosa has been working hard to improve South Africa’s economic situation. In October he hosted a jobs summit that’s expected to produce 275 […]
Are Coloured people marginalised?
The author argues that class consciousness is the only way to defeat capitalism.
Why Namibians want fresh impetus behind land reform
Twenty-eight years after independence, wealth in Namibia is still skewed along racial lines laid down in the colonial period. The level of inequality is one […]
Citizens Shouldn’t Pay Extra to See Their Leaders at Work
The poor cannot see the community engagements on changing the Constitution to expropriate land without compensation.
The National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill: the view of PHM-SA
The People’s Health Movement South Africa (PHM) supports the NHI, but with some reservation.
Are we becoming a nation of researchers, analysts and commentators?
Given the current economic and political climate that has engulfed the country, Vanessa Burger argues that South Africa is increasingly becoming a nation of researchers, analysts and commentators and this tendency is as destructive and parasitic as the politicians doing the damage.
Is it ok to kill hostel dwellers for political reasons, but NOT ok to kill politicians for various reasons?
Independent Community Activist for Human Rights & Social Justice and Elitsha contributor, Vannessa Burger was one of the witnesses of the ongoing Moerane Commission, which investigates underlying causes of political killings in KZN, wrote an opinion piece for us. The Commission will sit again in August and political parties are expected to testify.
Housing Protest Movement Spreads – Building a United Front Campaign
The service delivery protest movement of largely African working class people since 1994 and more particularly since the early 2000s, represents a low-key civil war which has largely been ignored by the mainstream media. However the spread of the protest movement to the predominantly ‘coloured’ working class areas in Gauteng like Eldorado Park, Ennerdale and Newclare has received widespread media coverage because these areas have been politically silent for the past twenty three years and now suddenly exploded in violent protest.
After middle-class moralising ends, xenophobia requires a root-cause critique
Media adverts, marches, speeches and campaigning generally missed the point: a layer of barely-surviving young men were the main attackers and had long lost patience.
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