What’s behind the rise in defensive design?
When US$20,000 worth of studs were installed on the surface of a fountain in a downtown Toronto park in 2017, the upset felt by some […]
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South Africa’s rape kit crisis
The shortage of rape kits at police stations around the country shows that the police are ill-equipped to combat violence against women.
How preschools can do more to support children living with HIV
Thanks to antiretroviral therapy, children living with HIV are likely to live much longer than they would without treatment. They will go to school like […]
Between high rates of HIV/AIDS and punitive new trafficking laws, India’s sex workers are struggling to assert their humanity
Gauri Dobe vividly remembers the last day of her childhood. It was a summer afternoon, and she had just finished devouring some mangoes. As she […]
Cape Town’s bloody gang violence is inextricably bound up in its history
When the apartheid government decided to evict people it called Coloured from Cape Town’s inner city, it set off a chain reaction that now requires military intervention. More than […]
Sowing seeds of resistance: the fight for food sovereignty in Palestine
This article is accompanied by a mini-documentary. Click here to watch. Food sovereignty in Palestine is inextricably linked to the fight for self-determination. Land dispossession in […]
In the United States, ‘click workers’ are struggling to make ends meet
Evan Hutchinson lives connected to his computer, day and night. At 27 years old, this Houston-based film graduate is what is known as a ‘click […]
Egypt is using the Africa Cup of Nations as an opportunity to test surveillance technologies on politically conscious fans
On 27 June, Alaa Mubarak, son of the former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, revealed on his Twitter account that the organisers of the Africa Cup of Nations […]
The faces behind the oil America went to war for
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 […]
“Challenging power isn’t polite and beautiful”: Dr Stella Nyanzi and the right to impolite in Uganda
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, […]
Data fails to capture complexity of South Africa’s unemployment crisis
It’s been 25 years since democracy dawned in South Africa. But apartheid’s legacies still scar the country. Poverty remains high; inequality remains extreme – and […]
Education in South Africa: hits and misses over the past 25 years
State of the Nation addresses are delivered at the start of South Africa’s parliamentary year. They focus on the current political and socio-economic state, highlight […]
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