Tag: South Africa
“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. (more…)
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 wipe the slate ....
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 and poisonous water, ....
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. (more…)
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. (more…)
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 it becomes clear ....
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? (more…)
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. (more…)