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
Ukraine, per se, is not the issue. It is tragically a war-ravaged pawn in a much larger conflict: the decline of one capitalist empire and the rise of yet another.
Commercial media reproduces the views of the dominant class and has been unable to unpack the underlying failures of capitalism
Zenprop chief executive James Tannenberger, who stands to benefit financially from the River Club development, failed to address the substantive points of our original article
Mainstream American politicians — establishment figures in both major parties — apply the denial and displacement mantra to many problems, especially inflation
‘Of Blood, Sweat and Data’, on show as part of FNB Art Joburg’s Open City programme, hopes to alter the way art lovers view Johannesburg — and photography
‘Squid Game’ is an explicit critique of the current mode of capitalism. But far too much popular discourse has overlooked or neglected its sociopolitical messages.
South Africans’ behaviour and attitudes show that poor black working-class people, and black women in particular, are denied
their innate humanity
E-fraud novels, such as ‘I Do Not Come To You By Chance’, depict characters recreating the same exploitative economic landscape they seek to avoid
Once we have borne the brunt of what has happened to us, we must decide to begin again and change ourselves
The purpose of business is to make money – but good leaders are more than bean counters
Producing EVs comes with all the absurdities of producing petrol vehicles
A vision for the future needs to take the long view
Even next to its luxury peers, the seven-seat behemoth is a little too much
The reactions to Elon Musk’s billionaire status are evidence that far too many South Africans have not fully grasped the destructive consequences of inequality. Entrepreneur Musk was recently crowned the richest man in the world. The founder and chief of Tesla Motors sits on a total net worth of $195-billion. The rapid swelling of Musk’s […]
We need a profound rethinking of the meaning of sustainability in sport — the global commercial model is neither environmentally nor socially sound
Pushback from strong social movements have recovered democracy for the people of Bolivia and Chile
Neither statesman could command sufficient authority in an ANC that remains mired in corruption and infighting and at the behest of big capital
The DA is stuck in classical liberalism when there are new ways of thinking about capitalism and the role of the state – and its denial of race as a concept is disingenuous