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Stuck Between Promise and Reality

Suliman Rajah22 May 2026

Soup kitchens, long cold, dry and dark winters Why your local council can’t just make water and electricity free — and what communities can do instead South Africa’s Constitution says everyone has the right to enough water. It says local government must provide basic services fairly. Those are not empty words. They are binding promises. […]

The Architecture of Continuity: How One Magistrate’s Gavel Speaks for a Whole System

Suliman Rajah21 April 2026

A single sentencing in April 2026 reveals the apartheid logic still running through South Africa’s courts, its water pipes, its power grid, its housing policies, and its hospitals. I. The Core Argument The April 2026 sentencing of Julius Malema is not an aberration. It is not the act of a single biased magistrate. It is […]

Whose Growth?

Suliman Rajah31 March 2026

We do not seek to grow the economy. That statement, within the narrow confines of the present, is heresy. It is the ultimate rejection of the gospel according to the economists, the ministers, and the commentators who see only percentages and indices where we see suffering. Their eternal plea is for “growth,” for “investment,” for […]

This Is Not a Water Crisis. It Is a Capitalist Extraction Crisis.

Suliman Rajah17 February 2026

South Africa is not “mysteriously” running out of water. We are watching the logical outcome of a system that treats rivers as inputs, aquifers as assets, and ecosystems as expendable. The scientific facts are not in dispute. South Africa is a water-scarce country with highly variable rainfall. By the mid-2000s, approximately 98% of reliable surface water […]