EFF taxi strike looks like a damp squib. Pity the poor commuters who were dreading it all weekend
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Building on the Brics
What will expanding the gang mean for the original 5 gangsters? And for the newbies?
Prohibition has failed, let’s put people first
Kgalema Motlanthe opens Africa Drug Policy Week with a call to end the war on drugs/war on people who use drugs
‘Screw the passengers’ as taxi and council ratchet up their war
It is war between the taxi bosses and the city, and it is the passengers who suffer
Give a man a fish/teach him to fish …
A day spent taking care of people who live on the street is a gift for all of us on Mandela Day
Promoting dignity on the streets in Mandela’s name
Providing a hot meal, something to wear and a little dignity to Cape Town’s most vulnerable, a fitting way to mark the great Madiba’s birthday
Renting our own little piece of the sun
Too good to be true? Maybe not. We have no complaints about our rental solar equipment … so far
Brics: who, what and why? (Is it worth it?)
With all the hoo-ha about SA’s hosting of the upcoming Brics summit it seems like a good time to refresh our memory about who makes up the grouping and what it has achieved
How the global south uses non-alignment to avoid great power rivalries
Africa especially, the world’s most insecure continent (host to 84% of UN peacekeepers), cannot afford to simply be pulled into the orbit of one or other of the superpowers of the day
The theft of art, the murder of knowledge
Art cannot be separated from history, knowledge, culture, development. The return of artworks plundered in colonial times entirely on the plunderers terms misses the point