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Africa’s high cost of borrowing creates a vicious cycle of higher taxes, social unrest and limited investment in the just energy transition. 
Kenya’s #RejectFinanceBill2024 protests were indicative of this trend. (Photo by LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images)

Kenyans protest detested finance bill amid calls for economic justice

Citizens unite globally against tax hikes, urging economic integrity and political accountability

Mother City directors Miki Redelinghuys and Pearlie Joubert

Mother City: A powerful documentary exposing Cape Town’s racial and economic inequality

Six years in the making, the pair’s film explores racial and economic inequality in Cape Town

ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa

Repugnant outcomes of a caste system

Intergenerational legacies of socioeconomic exclusion have locked millions of South Africans into social castes, not classes.

Disturbing: The #RhodesMustFall campaign has been rocked by a rape claim

When comrades rape comrades

‘Solidarity’ too often masks a culture of sexual coercion and assault by male activists.

Public education sector challenged to reform

The Centre for Development and Enterprise has challenged the public education sector to form a social movement to improve education in South Africa.

Grassroots groups look to their own to make a difference

Several grassroots social movements are fielding their own candidates in next week’s municipal elections to woo voters fed up with mainstream parties.

A movement to applaud

Social movements need to capitalise on grassroots discontent with the ruling party, argues <b>Ebrahim Harvey</b>.