By: Gillian Schutte
Pic: Media for Justice/Gillian Schutte
The fanfare at the beginning of a New Year is usually celebratory and full of hope. This celebration is a way for people to wipe the slate clean and begin anew.
A is for Apartheid – a response to Mike Van Graan
By Sabelo Kotswana
Pic: Wikipedia
I have to admit, when I read Mike van Graan’s article, I jumped into the list of items he mentioned. By the time I reached E, I was thoroughly confused, not by the contradictions and fallacies in Mike’s article,
The Education ‘Struggle’ – A Struggle for Mediocrity
By Nduduzo Msibi:
“If a man walks a thousand miles through a desert; barefoot, without food nor water, and finally arrives at a destination where he onlyfinds one serving of toxic food and poisonous water, his struggle is admirable and must be applauded; but whether that struggle was actually worthwhile is a different yet all too important question.”
Don’t call me by my slave name.
By Sabelo Kotswana:
I recently visited a doctor in Milnerton. The purpose of my visit was largely to establish contact with a doctor in Cape Town, having recently moved from Johannesburg.
A black Matric certificate is still worth nothing in South Africa
By Siphiwe Sithole:
Pic Courtesy of Wikicommons.
I must congratulate the class of 2013 for achieving what is said to be the highest pass rate of 78.2% since 1994 in South Africa.
Why do townships still exist?
By Siphiwe Sithole:
Photo by David Van Wyk
I have often wondered when I was younger why during the week I would sleep in a nice house where my grandmother worked as a domestic worker in the suburbs but on the weekends get into a taxi and sleep in a small hose in Meadowlands.
The Ten layers of Oppression When You are Black and Poor in South Africa
By: Sipho Singiswa & Gillian Schutte:
Photo: Jared Sacks:
Oppression, when written about, is often reduced to one layer of suffering. Yet when one unpacks the lives and narratives of the poor it becomes clear that their struggle to survive takes place under many layers of oppression.
Pride does justice proud
The first Johannesburg People’s Pride march took place on October 5 at Constitution Hill and the political nature of the event was clearly evident. Protest songs filled the air. People’s Pride linked many struggles to those for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights – housing and other socioeconomic rights, and access to water and food.
Living on Less than R1000 a Month: How Poor South Africans Survive
By Frank Meintjies
Where is poverty located? What are its shapes and forms? What strategies do households use to cope?
Waiting to inhale – The struggle for clean air and adequate housing in Wentworth.
It’s a blistering hot afternoon when we arrive at the Barracks. This regimentally built cluster of council houses was erected as a transit camp in Wentworth in 1972.