By: Damon Leff
A recent MWEB radio advert and the response from City Press demonstrated how human rights abuses resulting from accusations of witchcraft in South Africa are dismissed in favour of profit and misleading headlines. [0]
Kagiso Community Struggle against Australian Gold Mining Outfit – MINTAILS
Photo by Gillian Schutte: Mintails Mine put up a flimsy tape to prevent children from playing on uranium poisoned mine dumps.
Films by Sipho Singiswa.
An Activist’s Manifesto for 2014: Ten Social Justice Issues to Champion
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.
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.
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.
Why the South African Youth Are Not Voting.
By Luthando Vikilahle:
Mainstream political parties do not speak to the needs and struggles of young people. However the much bigger elephant in the room is the depoliticisation of the South African youth since 1994.