Hundreds march to Parliament against budget cuts
Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwane confirmed what the protesters feared.
Poverty and inequalities
Alternative SONA reflects a nation far from the president’s fictions
The alternative state of the nation address by activists in Cape Town paints a picture of deepening poverty and inequalities.
Children are starving to death in Eastern Cape – Human Rights Commission tells government to act
The SAHRC inquiry into child health in the Eastern Cape found that between April 2021 and March 2022, 116 children died of severe acute malnutrition.
Calls for revolution at Social Justice Assembly
The author argues that the Social Justice Assembly needs to overcome the social and political distance between the poor and the NGOs championing their cause.
Families of 21 Scenery Park teenagers await answers
In a hasty public relations exercise the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality fixed the roads to the Scenery Park sports fields where the president addressed the mourners.
Fire rages through Joe Slovo in Langa
Joe Slovo informal settlement residents near the N2 Gateway Housing project were removing rubble and looking for items to salvage on Sunday morning.
Over 100 villages in Raymond Mhlaba without water
Villagers in Amathole District Municipality continue without water for months on end despite the Covid-19 pandemic.
Farming communities in E Cape struggle to adhere to Covid regulations
As Covid-19 rages on with residents not adhering to preventive measures, unemployment and poverty continue to plague small farming towns around the country.
Covid-19 makes a bad situation worse for agricultural migrant workers in Canada
Maria Lopez begged to get time off to go to church for Christmas. She had worked for months as a packer in a greenhouse in […]
With poverty rates on the rise, eradicating child labour in Lebanon is proving ever more complicated
On roaming through the winding alleyways of Tripoli’s old city and its maze-like souk, it is not unusual to see children pushing wheelbarrows with boxes […]
As climate displacement increases, migration myths fuel fears
Wave by wave, Saint-Louis is slowly but steadily sinking beneath the rising ocean; the waters that once provided the northern Senegalese city with sustenance now threatening its […]
Understanding the era of emotion
Less than three finger-widths, around four or five centimetres, separate the neocortex from the amygdala: our reason and our emotions. For centuries, thinkers and poets […]
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