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…
A is for Apartheid – a response to Mike Van Graan
By Sabelo Kotswana Pic: Wikipedia I have to admit, when I read Mike van Graan’s article, I jumped into the list of items he mentioned. By the time I reached E, I…
The Education ‘Struggle’ – A Struggle for Mediocrity
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…
Don’t call me by my slave name.
By Sabelo Kotswana: 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.
A black Matric certificate is still worth nothing in South Africa
By Siphiwe Sithole: Pic Courtesy of Wikicommons. 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.
Why do townships still exist?
By Siphiwe Sithole: Photo by David Van Wyk I have often wondered when I was younger why during the week I would sleep in a nice house where my grandmother worked as…
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…
Pride does justice proud
11 Oct 2013 00:00 Gillian Schutte in Mail & Guardian A new movement for sexual minorities has spurned big business to fight broader social ills, writes Gillian Schutte. The first Johannesburg People’s…
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?