Category: Human Rights
“South Africa is Burning.”
By: Gillian Schutte ‘The country is burning’. ‘ Burning frustration.’ ‘Hot Headed protestors burn houses’. These are the headlines that abound about the many protests that are currently erupting around South Africa.
Victims of witch-hunts in South Africa are ignored.
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…
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…
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…
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?
The terminal nature of poverty
By Gillian Schutte & Sipho Singiswa: Photo: Jared Sacks As academics, journalists, social commentators and activists we have a sense that we know the poor. We are outraged by poverty and inequality…
Failing to Feed Our People: South Africa’s Lacklustre Food Security Policy
By Glenn Ashton We are what we eat and on the whole South Africans are unhealthy. Because of our increasingly industrialised food chain we eat far too much refined, processed food. The…