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Article Bongekile Macupe - 28 Feb 2020

With private security keeping watch, the university and SRC seem to be working towards a compromise on student debt

Bishop Emeritus Rubin Phillip: The guerilla priest

Article Carlos Amato - 23 Feb 2020

From his adventures with Steve Biko to his support for shack dwellers in KwaZulu-Natal, Bishop Emeritus Rubin Phillip has always walked the talk of radical Christianity

Standing up for the arts

Article Editorial - 21 Feb 2020

Disparate lobby groups (I Am For The Arts, for one) and think-tanks within the arts are stepping up to fill the void, creating the kind of groundswell that is known to make politicians hot under the collar and speaking nervously

Bid to settle Mars could solve Earth’s crisis

Analysis Sikhulekile Duma - 6 Feb 2020

Africa must be part of developing technology that may make inhabiting the Red Planet possible and help the continent survive climate change

Vuma Levin initiates his cycle

Article Gwen Ansell - 3 Feb 2020

The guitarist is growing into his groove, with a new concept album launching soon

ANC factions rely on silence from the poor

Article Richard Pithouse - 14 Jun 2019

Our history has shown that the exercise of democratic reason can shake power from below

‘Land or Death’: BLF fails to defend slogan

Article Buhle Kunene - 12 Jun 2019

Mcebo Dlamini suggests the equality court took the slogan too literally, but the BLF itself has not provided any ideological justification for it

Black people must be free to articulate their anger at the theft of their land

Article Mcebo Dlamini - 10 Jun 2019

The equality court ruling that the slogan ‘Land or Death’ is hate speech sets a dangerous precedent

The radical afterlives of Frantz Fanon

Article Bhakti Shringarpure - 6 Jun 2019

A documentary film takes Fanon’s ideas out of the past and tracks the ways in which his ideas are resonating with today’s young across the globe

Mating Birds Vol.2: Love and its perversions under the Immorality Act

Article Staff Reporter - 6 Feb 2019

Sumayya Menezes reflects on trawling through the source material that birthed Mating Birds Vol.2

Risking all defies the laws of economics

Article Rafael Winkler - 17 Oct 2018

In economic terms, a decision to give up everything in return for nothing is irrational but in human terms it can lead to irreversible change

Class exists but can we say the same of race?

Article Staff Reporter - 10 Aug 2018

We need to drop race as a category and rather see people according to their different needs

Brics is no emancipatory project

Article Richard Pithouse - 27 Jul 2018

The liberal international order is being destroyed. And in the midst of this, Brics leaders gathered in Johannesburg this week

SA’s road to freedom is stalked by death

Article Richard Pithouse - 15 Jun 2018

The entrenchment and normalisation of assassinations are a threat to democracy

The liberal licence  to kill

Article Richard Pithouse - 5 Apr 2018

The liberal public sphere is still unwilling to accord equal weight to all human lives

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