By Gillian Schutte
Poststructuralist psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, has argued that humans distinguish themselves from animals in the instant during which shit becomes something shameful.
The Unsustainability of Corporate Propaganda – From Lonmin to Wonderkop
Article by Gillian Schutte.
When the mass strike action hit the Rustenberg Platinum belt in August 2012 mainstream South African public was quick to write off the striking miners as an unruly bunch who were ungrateful for their employment and unworthy of the social development that the mining companies were investing into their communities.
Dr Nawal El Saadawi – Poverty, Revolution and Freedom of Speech
Dr Nawal El Saadawi speaks on Poverty, Revolution and Freedom of Speech.
Lack of service delivery and women
This clip is from the documentary Transforming informal settlements – The Grootboom case, and The forgotten place.
It looks at the particular impact poverty and lack of services has on women.
Lack of service delivery and women
Womens’ sense of dignity compromised by lack of basic services
A trip into any of the hundreds of informal settlements in South Africa is a brutal reminder of the need to highlight issues such as the absence of basic services for women living in impoverished conditions.
Women struggle against the diseases that flourish in areas that offer virtually no services.