There is a renewed white arrogance staking a claim to influence in the public sphere. It is fuelled by a swing to the right and needs to be contested
South Africa is correct and courageous to oppose the West at the International Court of Justice but is not a consistently principled actor
As the ANC’s standing and support sink to new lows, there is no emancipatory alternative ready to take to the hustings
The Change Starts Now project, which is backed by billionaires and fronted by former banker Roger Jardine, is a top-down attempt by powerful people to win political clout
Our grief for people we have not personally known is informed by the narratives and stories we are exposed to – but these stories are not equally told
As the ashes cool and xenophobia licks at our shared humanity, it is time for a reckoning with who we have become
Democracy can be about more than elections and the sudden moments of rupture enabled by social media. The patient work of building popular movements remains essential
‘Time Come’, a collection of essays, speech, reviews and other forms of prose by the dub poet, Linton Kwesi Johnson, makes for compelling reading
As a thinker he enriched our public life, encouraging seriousness and inviting his audience into public discussion rather than the mere observation of spectacle
Amílcar Cabral was assassinated 50 years ago today. His thought, which sometimes arrived in South Africa via a circuitous route, speaks to our current crisis with undiminished power.