Article By: Sfiso Benard Nxumalo
Tag: Poverty
Race Discourse is a Red Herring
By: Victor Ndomi
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…
The Politics of Shit and Why it Should Be Used in Social Justice Protests.
By Gillian Schutte Poststructuralist psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, has argued that humans distinguish themselves from animals in the instant during which shit becomes something shameful.