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Dennis Webster has a research background in labour, land and housing. He writes about cities, farmwork and popular politics in rural areas.
It is crucial to pay attention to the effects of a warming world on mothers and babies because it stands to affect them the most
The Socio-Economic Rights Institute alleges the threats came after public statements by ActionSA city councillor Nkululeko Mbundu
In its latest guarantee, Johannesburg’s transport department says that the next leg of the city’s public bus system will be operational by September
Sidelined during the Covid-19 pandemic, the country’s deadliest disease has been working under cover
In 1922, Johannesburg’s white workers united on a scale not seen before or since, unleashing violence against Black miners and destroying their potential to become an organised…
Watching the second Test match between South Africa and India from inside the hallowed environs of the Bull Ring was a discomfiting cricketing experience that will hopefully…
While officials remain entangled in bureaucratic knots, clinicians warn that the continued closure of the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital risks a ‘humanitarian…
Gold made Johannesburg. Today, a lesser-known mineral shapes the lives of some of the city’s impoverished residents
Ferrero factory workers have won the first battle in what might become one of South Africa’s next wars on casual and precarious work
In an environment where activism against mining is becoming increasingly deadly, Nonhle Mbuthuma’s life may be at risk
The coronavirus lockdown has added new dimensions to a decades-long struggle for electricity in the far west of Soweto, where residents have challenged the situation fiercely in…
About 1 600 families in the Stjwetla shack settlement in Alexandra, Johannesburg are standing on the verge of seismic change. This is one of their stories
Under level four of the Covid-19 lockdown, the hours from 6am to 9am became the time when inner-city residents could use local parks to escape the nightmare around them
The newly established grant intended to bring informal economy workers into South Africa’s social security net during the lockdown has had a disastrous start
Street traders are central to food security in Johannesburg. But since being declared an essential service under lockdown, street trade in South Africa’s biggest city has…
When people call South Africa the most unequal country in the world, they’re talking about income. Now, we have a clear picture of how unequally the country’s wealth is distributed
Underground liquor has a long history in South Africa. Its next chapter is being written under the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown
Early studies suggest that the Covid-19 can survive up to three days in droplets that are coughed or sneezed on to surfaces
The Nodal Review might transform South Africa’s biggest city. Implementing the new policy, which has the potential to open wealthy suburbs to impoverished residents, is the…
As the Karoo hopes for an end to its worst drought in a generation, the region’s history may hold important lessons for its future
