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Sport Francois Cleophas - 20 Dec 2020

We need a profound rethinking of the meaning of sustainability in sport — the global commercial model is neither environmentally nor socially sound

Capitalism rotten to the cor(p)

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Zuma vs Ramaphosa? Neither is the leader South Africans deserve

Opinion Andile Zulu - 27 Sep 2020

Neither statesman could command sufficient authority in an ANC that remains mired in corruption and infighting and at the behest of big capital

DA’s policy proposals are counter-transformative

Opinion Siyabulela Tsengiwe - 2 Sep 2020

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

Towards a people’s economics of education

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Reopening of schools seems to be less about the teachers, parents and students and more about desperate attempts to rescue our failing and unsustainable capitalist economy

The mechanism of contagion in racism

Opinion Kiasha Naidoo - 26 Jul 2020

How race came to function as fuel to an exploitative economic system. Take the case of South Africa…

Black Lives Matter – turning point at a historic moment

Opinion Anthony Bogues - 24 Jul 2020

The protests that have taken place in the United States confront the racialised edifice that built the modern world

Beware of Big Business bearing gifts

Opinion Ahmed Sule - 19 Jul 2020

Large corporates whose business has thrived because of inequalities, could be hijacking the anti-racist movement by offering money and not tangible changes

How racism is an essential capitalist tool

Opinion Richard D Wolff - 2 Jul 2020

In the United States, the African American minority is capitalism’s ‘business cycle shock-absorber’

Achille Mbembe: The universal right to breathe

Opinion Achille Mbembe - 24 Jun 2020

‘Modernity has been an interminable war on life. And it is far from over.’ We need to start anew; reclaim the oxygen that belongs to all on Earth

Militarisation, repression and capitalism in the US

World William I Robinson - 21 Jun 2020

A global police state – the military arm for capital interests – marginalises, controls and subjugates millions of people considered surplus humanity

The myths that swirl around modern-day South Africa should be dispelled

Opinion Andile Zulu - 25 May 2020

Without an accurate understanding of the dilemmas which overwhelm us, our efforts to produce effective and far-reaching strategies or solutions for change will fail

There are limits to what a capitalist government can do in this crisis

Coronavirus Greg Dor - 13 May 2020

We need an entirely new way of doing things to put an end to poverty

Political pragmatism is required to survive Covid-19

Coronavirus Quentin du Plessis - 12 May 2020

Political ideologies — communism, capitalism, liberalism — and an unrealistic view of the world as we’d like it to be got us into this mess

Covid-19 pandemic: An opportunity to press the reset button on capitalism?

Article Bert Olivier - 27 Apr 2020

Human greed has brought us to the brink of societal collapse. It is time for a student-led revolution to promote a transition to a new economic system

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Match of the day: Sport vs ecology

Capitalism rotten to the cor(p)

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DA’s policy proposals are counter-transformative

Towards a people’s economics of education

The mechanism of contagion in racism

Black Lives Matter – turning point at a historic moment

Beware of Big Business bearing gifts

How racism is an essential capitalist tool

Achille Mbembe: The universal right to breathe

Militarisation, repression and capitalism in the US

The myths that swirl around modern-day South Africa should be dispelled

There are limits to what a capitalist government can do in this crisis

Political pragmatism is required to survive Covid-19

Covid-19 pandemic: An opportunity to press the reset button on capitalism?

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