Capitalism

Explore 'Izithukuthuku: The Tattered Soul of the Worker', a powerful dance theatre production that uses isiPantsula to critique the violence of capitalism and the emotional toll…

A candid look at Campbell Meas’s journey navigating creativity, identity and the challenges of breaking into the arts industry

Trade unions are still the best way of organising resistance to the violence of capitalism

Urgent reform is needed as dangerous socio-economic undercurrents swirl

We South Africans know our coalitions (we’ll probably see more after our elections) and the recently released Apple Music 100 Best Albums list smells exactly like one

We need to begin any analysis with the realisation that capitalism has few winners

We live in a system doing the exact opposite of what it was designed for

Deepening economic democracy through human rights-centred economic and social policy frameworks

Ethics of protest are called into question as union’s action sees the lives of sick people put at risk and women in labour turned away from hospitals

Economic war rages on as global power dynamics shift.

Capitalism’s aim is to maximise profit, even when it is exploitative, so unions have a crucial role but must ensure their slates are clean

This cannot be rectified without redistributing wealth and property – and therefore power

To reimagine a better South Africa, capitalism and its unequal class structure have to be challenged

The class structure and capitalism have to be challenged to reimagine a viable and just country

The forms of capitalism adopted in the West and in economies such as China are influenced by how early or late those polities were in coming to the game