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Jared Sacks is founder of a children’s nonprofit organisation and a PhD candidate in the department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African studies at Columbia University .

US President Donald Trump said this week that the tariff is meant to address the trade imbalance between South Africa and the US. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP/picture alliance)

Fighting fascism means that we cannot not give them an inch

Mass activism and solidarity will help to keep to this dangerous movement spearheaded by Trump in check

A view of the land where the new River Club development is located. (David Harrison)

Interrogating the claims of Amazon developer James Tannenberger

Setting out the concrete facts in the Amazon-linked development in Cape Town in which Transnet sold land for a song

Construction work has already begun to transform the River Club into a site where Amazon wants to situate its headquarters in Cape Town. (Photo by Gallo Images/ER Lombard)

Pitfalls of the ‘mallification’ of our cities

It seem that massive corporations and property developers control Cape Town and other centres, with big land parcels going their way for low prices

Nokuthula Mabaso, centre, and other mourners from eKhenana attend the funeral of Ayanda Ngila at his family home in Mthalala village in Port St Johns, Eastern Cape. Photograph: Rogan Ward

The unseen massacre of Durban shack dwellers

Over the past 15 years, 24 leaders of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the largest independent social movement in South Africa, have been assassinated

The country’s social fibre is under strain and one cannot help but feel that something will have to give. (David Harrison/M&G)

Rich vigilantes have no fear of consequences

The City of Cape Town tacitly condones it when wealthy landowners behave illegally, something that is not the case if you’re poor

City of Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato along with other officials held a media briefing at their Covid-19 lockdown facility in Strandfontein followed by a tour of the large marquee tents. The media presence incited many of the people in the tents that was quickly stopped after media was urged to move along. The City of Cape Town’s Covid-19 lockdown encampment in Strandfontein for up to 4000 homeless people from around the greater city area.  (David Harrison/M&G)

Blindness: How the Strandfontein camp was set up to fail

The facility in Cape Town was about quarantining the most vulnerable — the homeless — rather than preventing Covid-19

The UCT senate’s call to cut ties, not with Israeli Jews, but with complicit Israeli universities that have already enshrined discrimination into their mode of being is nothing but a defence of academic freedom.

Jewish resistance to Zionism is on the right side of history

Confining people in effective Bantustans forces us to see Israel for what it is: a European project of domination

‘A riot is the language of the unheard’

Forced into the public domain has been UCT’s function as a "non-profit" corporation and its collusion with mining multinationals.

ANC and DA discover common ground

The parties’ reactions to land invaders in regions they govern are similar – and equally illegal.

A ‘self-hating’ Jew’s guide to answering Zionist talking points

A growing number of Jews in Israel and around the world are standing with the Palestinians in their struggle for justice in the Gaza conflict.

Avert forced removals by giving the rich’s land to the poor

The Lwandle evictions are symptomatic of a broader issue: our growing housing crisis.

Reports of CPT homeless ‘work camps’ alarming

The Cape Argus has published a shocking exposé on a City of Cape Town plan to rid the city centre of people who live and make a living on the streets.

A group of ‘EFF defenders’ led by Lufuno Gogoro say that they are disgruntled

No gods, no masters: A reply to Andile Mngxitama

Andile Mngxitama seems not only to have radically changed his mind on Malema, but looks past Frantz Fanon’s warnings on the danger of the hero leader.

‘Shock and awe tactics’ used on shack dwellers

If we are to have any chance of resolving the escalating crisis in our society, we are going to have to think beyond liberalism.

Andile Mngxitama: Sipho Singiswa thought he had found a vulnerability in my consistent Black Consciousness armour. Photo: Supplied

Threats are bad; white supremacy is worse

This is the only public comment that I will make on the whole saga of the threats made against me by Andile Mngxitama, writes Jared Sacks.

Biko would not vote for Ramphele

Were he alive today, the Black Consciousness activist would be one of Mamphela Ramphele’s most ardent critics, says Jared Sacks.

Service delivery protests in Cape Town have given rise to a great deal of commentary and finger-pointing.

Apolitical truth about civil disobedience

Cape Town shack dwellers’ anger is about a lack of service delivery and is not politically motivated.

Protests have plagued Cape Town for years

Deep Read: The politics of protest

Protests have plagued Cape Town for years, but now they’ve begun to bleed out of township boundaries and into spaces that affect the middle class.

Dear Mandela
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Dear Mandela: A film about unfreedom

Dear Mandela charts the daily struggles and activism of three people who take up the cause of development and dignity within their communities.

Why are some ‘occupiers’ more equal than others?

Why are some ‘occupiers’ more equal than others?

About 200 Cape Town residents participated in the call for a "World Revolution Day" on October 15 inspired by the growing worldwide Occupy movement.