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Fighting corruption through the arts
United by poems, plays and passion, artists tackle corruption head-on at a Joburg performance
National Dialogue gains inclusion as activists step in after foundations exit
The special project manager at the Thabo Mbeki Foundation said legacy foundations were talking to civil society on how to take the project back from the government and political…
Digital occupation: How surveillance technologies repress dissent from Gaza to Cape Town
This creeping form of observation marks a dangerous evolution in how power is exercised and dissent controlled
Pravin Gordhan set the benchmark for public service and dedication to the cause
Not everyone liked the late former public enterprises minister, but everyone respected him
Pravin Gordhan, former public enterprises minister and lifelong political activist, dies
Gordhan passed away after what his family said was a short battle with cancer
The Continent: Africa A-Z of 2021
The highlights of 2021 in Africa
Marikana community fear murder accused and former police chief who now heads mine security
Murder accused and former provincial police deputy commissioner Wiliam Mpembe rules mine security with impunity – say people in Marikana
The ‘girl from Africa’ who is taking ubuntu to the world
Elizabeth Nyamayaro’s new book argues that the philosophy from Africa can change the way the West interacts with the continent it colonised, stereotypes and continues to…
Young people call for an end to the terrible legacy of coal
‘The generation of 1976 did not fight to end the injustices of their time only for there to be the dawn of a climate apartheid’
Kanalelo Boloetsi: Taking on Lesotho’s cellphone giants, and winning
A man who took on cellphone data regulators over out-of-bundle rates is featured in this edition of a series on human rights defenders in the SADC region
Pandemic of human rights abuses haunts governments in East and Southern Africa
In a year defined by Covid-19, human rights violations, including massacres of civilians and crackdowns on opposition parties, have plagued these regions
The living nightmare of environmental activists who protest mine expansion
Last week Fikile Ntshangase was gunned down as activists fight mining company Tendele’s expansions. Community members tell the M&G about the ‘kill lists’ and the dread they live…
Housing activists want probe into City of Cape Town ‘spying’
The City of Cape Town admits it monitors the social-media pages of housing activists but denies that this is spying, as tensions surrounding land occupations increase
End the pandemic of violence against women activists
In countries such as Uganda, Zimbabwe and Egypt female champions are beaten up, sexually abused, jailed and even “disappeared”
Veronica Sobukwe’s guiding ethos
Robert Sobukwe’s wife was an activist, and she looked after the children while he was incarcerated