Over-population is not the problem
“The misery of people here is very great, with beggars innumerable and increasing every day....pigs and calves live better than they.” That rhyming comment could apply to the legions of the poor in many parts of the world today. And South Africa is no exception.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 14 July 2014
Framed: a film to explore the West’s fascination with Africa
About ten years ago, an anthropologist from South Africa and a documentarian from the United States began to set in motion a film that would explore what they see as the West’s obsession with “rescuing” Africa.
Joy Shan
News | 14 July 2014
Judgment next week in Ses’khona case
Judgment will be delivered on 18 July in the case of Andile Lili and six others charged after the “poo protests” in the city in June 2013.
Pharie Sefali
Brief | 11 July 2014
Stripping the tears of bleeding-heart feminists and other sex abolitionists
Are Cape Town city strip joints filled with sex slaves? Marlise Richter investigates.
Marlise Richter
Opinion | 11 July 2014
Manenberg gang violence: In display of solidarity, residents come out of hiding
Residents of Manenberg in Cape Town are fed up with the gang violence. And to show their frustration, they’ve decided to march. Shaun Swingler reports for the Daily Maverick on an initiative called Taking Back Our Streets.
Shaun Swingler
News | 11 July 2014
Andile Lili sets sights on 2016 elections
Former mountain guide, expelled city councillor, leader of the Ses'khona People's Movement: who is Andile Lili? Pharie Sefali and Alide Dasnois spoke to Cape Town’s best known “poo fighter”.
Pharie Sefali and Alide Dasnois
News | 11 July 2014
Are editors crushing news of SA’s socialist dawn?
Activist-cum-political contender Mametlwe Sebei says news editors are actively excluding socialist issues from the public discourse. Jane Duncan of Rhodes says editors squash or are threatened by socialist ideas. Mandy de Waal looked into their claims.
Mandy de Waal
Analysis | 10 July 2014
The Week in Political Activism
This week we report arrests at a health demonstration in the Free State, the African Union’s recent move to immunise leaders from war crime prosecution, and an upcoming school infrastructure reform conference.
Michelle Korte
News | 10 July 2014
Langa protest in photos
Langa residents protested yesterday, demanding new houses. Several shops were looted, roads were closed and police used teargas and fired rubber bullets. Armand Hough took several dramatic photographs.
Armand Hough
News | 10 July 2014