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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 […]

Returning to Biko: Black Consciousness in a Time of Tribalism and Xenophobia

Tshezi Azania Soxujwa7 April 2026

We are living in a dangerous time in our occupied Azania. Across townships and communities, we are seeing the rise of tribalism and xenophobia. People are turning against each other South African against “foreigner,” one tribe against another while claiming that others are stealing jobs or bringing drugs.But if we return to Steve Biko, we […]

CONTROVERSIAL COAL SALES

Mel Frykberg7 April 2026

South Africa boosts coal exports to Israel despite taking it to court in genocide case Critics have slammed the South African government, accusing it of hypocrisy, because of the country’s coal exports to Israel that have accelerated in the past two years despite Pretoria’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). […]

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 […]

Municipal Bungling, Water Apartheid, and Systemic Failure in Gqeberha’s Water Crisis

Siyabulela Mama11 February 2026

Gqeberha is once again confronting a deepening water crisis that exposes not only infrastructural decay and municipal failure, but also the enduring realities of racial capitalism marked by water apartheid and neoliberal governance in South Africa. While officials continue to frame the crisis as a technical or climatic challenge, lived experiences across the city reveal […]

The death of politics in South Africa.

Zwelinzima Vavi11 February 2026

We are underestimating the devastating impact of the death of politics in South Africa. Not politics as elections, conferences or speeches, but politics as the conscious, organised participation of ordinary people in shaping their collective future. We have never honestly analysed how the “big man” phenomenon hollowed out our democratic culture. The towering moral authority […]

Campaign to Scrap the Labour Amendment Bills Press Release

Casual Workers Advice Office (CWAO)11 February 2026

5 February 20252pm Forty social movements, worker formations and community organisations condemn the tiny R1.44 per hour increase to the National Minimum Wage For interviews, please phone:Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima – Southern African Regional Network – 065 848 3196Maggie Mthombeni – IZWI Domestic Workers Alliance – 073 153 1167 The Campaign to Scrap the Labour Amendment Bills, […]

Mazibuko Jara | Why the SACP needs to focus beyond the Alliance

Mazibuko Jara3 February 2026

Dinga Sikwebu’s article in last week’s City Press (“SACP’s umms and ahhs: Holes in motivations to contest elections”, Sun 18 Jan 2026, https://www.news24.com/citypress/voices/dingwa-sikwebu-sacps-umms-and-ahhs-holes-in-motivations-to-contest-elections-20260117-1174) lands a necessary challenge: the SACP’s decision to contest the 2026 local government elections is politically significant, but it currently reads as a half-step — an “umming and ahhing” posture that may […]

Oupa Lehulere, Renowned South African Marxist

James Kilgore3 February 2026

I FIRST MET Oupa Lehulere in 1992. He took a job at Khanya College where I was the coordinator. At that historical moment, the foundation of post-apartheid South Africa was being laid. It was an incredibly challenging, complicated, often confusing time. Oupa helped us make sense of it. He was the right person in the […]

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