South African education among world’s worst
South Africa accounted for one of the lowest results in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (Pirls) of 2021,...
Elitsha
Published in Elitsha, a bi-monthly newspaper distributed in Alexandra and Orange Farm in Gauteng, Khayelitsha in Western Cape, Mdantsane and Zwide in Eastern Cape
Around the world, trade unions are championing LGBTQI+ rights in the workplace
While significant progress has been made in recent years towards the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex...
Housing imbizo just another talkshop say residents of informal settlements
Community leaders and housing activists from over ten informal settlements who attended an imbizo hosted by the department of human...
CPUT shuts down after protest
What started as a peaceful protest by Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) students fighting for their rights took an...
The 1973 Durban strikes and the workers movement to end apartheid
The Sharpeville massacre in 1960 was followed by unparalleled repression of anti-apartheid and anti-capitalist organisations. This cleared the ground for...
Ordinary working people are being priced out of Accra and pushed into inadequate housing
Bright Adu Larbi, a 38-year-old security guard making 500 Ghanaian cedis (US$45) a month, didn’t need the ongoing economic crisis to feel...
Films on disability, load shedding and black hair awarded at Khayelitsha festival
Young and upcoming film-makers who were part of last weekend’s three-day film festival at Bertha Movie House in Khayelitsha have...
Media workers in Cameroon face rising, violent repression; the murder of journalists is Exhibit A
In 2019, Paul Chouta was held for two years at the Kondengui Central Prison in the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde,...
Strike at Makro to spread to other Walmart-owned stores
The South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) announced during a press conference held in Johannesburg on Tuesday...
Costs of basic necessities going up and up
Most people in South Africa are struggling to survive in a context of high unemployment and skyrocketing prices for basic...
