By Frank Meintjies Where is poverty located? What are its shapes and forms? What strategies do households use to cope?
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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…
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…
Deconstructing the Baby-Rape Narrative.
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.
Does the Media Desensitise us to the Suffering of the Poor?
By 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…
Marikana: Neoliberalism Negates Human Rights.
(Picture Credit: Gillian Schutte – Media for Justice)