SA’s Political End-Games
Political assassinations appear to be on the increase in post-apartheid South Africa – especially in more recent years – with researcher David Bruce suggesting as many as 450 people have been killed since the advent of democracy. Intra-party violence has increased in KwaZulu-Natal since the Inkatha Freedom Party’s splintering of the National Freedom Party. […]
Social Justice and SA’s Courts
The more the courts do to fix poverty and inequality directly, the more likely is it that people will remain poor and unequal. For some time, an important debate has been raging between legal academics who want our courts to help the fight for social justice. It has been confined to law journals and […]
On the Shooting of a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl
POEM: On the Shooting of a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl Who among us will be remembered? None of us will survive. Not the journalist, the one who wrote about Marikana, about the shooting of striking miners, which preceded the shooting of a 17-year-old girl. Nor the filmmaker, the one who made the documentary about the social movement […]
Broken Heart(h)s and Lives
On the night of September 26, 2009 members of shackdweller movement Abahlali baseMjondolo’s youth wing were attacked by an armed mob chanting anti-Pondo slogans at the Kennedy Road settlement’s community hall in Durban. In the dark the violence spread. In the light of day, two people were found dead, while hundreds others from the […]