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.”
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.
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.
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.
By Frank Meintjies
Where is poverty located? What are its shapes and forms? What strategies do households use to cope?
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.
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.
To anyone researching the horrific occurrence of baby rape worldwide it is very clear that it is not a racialised or a cultural phenomenon, says Gillian Schutte.
Last week saw the memorial of the Marikana Massacre unfold on national television, namely on eNCA, which rolled out an entire day dedicated to the miners that died in the massacre. 
On the surface this appeared to be a noble cause that could be celebrated as the mainstream finally seeing things from the working-class perspective.
