If there is no material justice and investment in healing the generations of harm enacted onto South Africans, the rot in the country's wounds will overcome...
While the #FreeJacobZuma campaign is the catalyst, the violence has been fuelled by deep-rooted inequality, poverty, unemployment, trauma.
To riff off James Baldwin, there will be a fire next time in South Africa. The embers and kindling are in place. What matters is what...
In his new book, the Ugandan academic Mahmood Mamdani argues that breaking cycles of violence requires collective action. He finds hope in the unfinished project of...
A full confession can bring amnesty and immunity from prosecution or civil procedures for the crimes committed. Therein lies the central irony. As people give more...
Assuming today’s socioeconomic crisis benefits the Left is folly. That will only happen if we have the political vision to make class the fault line of...
The pressures young black un(der)employed men experience are at once economic and social given the pressure they face to not only “provide” for themselves and their...
When our political parties only have recourse to the realm of identity and culture, it is a smokescreen for their lack of political legitimacy and programmatic...
Zindzi Mandela’s childhood was difficult and tumultuous. However, even with a father in jail and a mother constantly harassed by the authorities, she chose to embrace...
A law to allow the seizure of white-owned land could have a profoundly negative impact that goes well beyond the violation of fundamental human rights. Its...
The recent Afrophobic attacks in South Africa are symptoms of a deeper problem that has its roots in the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885.
Anti-African violence in South Africa is fuelled by exclusion, poverty and rampant unemployment. This isn’t black-on-black violence. This is poor-on-poor violence.
