Category: Socioeconomic Justice
A Political Overview of the Current Situation – Some questions for the left in South Africa
By: David Van Wyk 2014 was born in class struggle. Mineworkers on the Platinum Belt immediately resumed the struggle for a living wage. This struggle is now in its third year.
Government Sponsored houses at the centre of fraud and corruption in West bank – Western Cape
Report by citizen journalist: Luthando Vikilahle A community near Cape Town is shocked and in despair after discovering that many of its members are being evicted from houses they had purchased a…
“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.
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…
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.
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…