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Posted inEquality, Lifestyle

Zanzibar: Paradise meets purgatory

by John Davenport 26 January 202228 February 2022

Instagram beaches, but the misogyny, poverty and remnants of slavery can sour the tropical food in your mouth

Posted inNews/Politics

It’s not poor management, it’s poor leadership

by Willie Thabe 25 January 202223 January 2022

Attuned leadership, is guided by its ethics and virtues but has self-agency and makes choices informed by their own communities’ felt needs

Posted inNews/Politics

Compassion needed as poverty threatens our social fabric

Farouk Araie by Farouk Araie 15 January 202215 January 2022

Monumental disparities raise the risk of epic upheaval in South Africa and globally

Posted inGeneral

Why do foreign donors wish to control African CSOs?

Portia C Allen by Portia C Allen 19 November 202119 November 2021

Donors keep telling Africans to ‘be patient’ and ‘remain hopeful’, but most haven’t increased their funding since Covid-19

Posted inBusiness

‘Go local’ say small-scale farmers and retailers

by Nduduzo Majozi 19 November 202119 November 2021

Strategies for how to become more resilient were discussed at a meeting held in Pietermaritzburg

Posted inGeneral

Sex workers, former inmates and people who use drugs help to feed the world during the pandemic

Tian Johnson by Tian Johnson 11 August 20215 October 2021

But now funders need to explicitly include food provision as an essential part of Covid-19 relief

Posted inLifestyle

A South African coffee shop scene in 2040

Inga Hanifa by Inga Hanifa 10 August 20215 October 2021

A winning science fiction short story

Posted inNews/Politics

Clean-up after South Africa’s violence reveals a deeper rot

by John Davenport 7 August 20215 October 2021

Is a system that leaves people with nothing left to lose in any way worth supporting?

Posted inNews/Politics

Our responses to social unrest and structural uncertainty are not enough

Zukiswa Mqolomba by Zukiswa Mqolomba 4 August 20215 October 2021

Social protection strategies that emphasise systemic responses only to ‘livelihood shocks and uncertainties’ hardly take into account the ways in which poverty and unemployment are produced and reproduced in South Africa

Posted inBusiness

Active steps to ensure our cities’ social and economic sustainability need to be taken now

by Sithole Mbanga 14 July 20219 September 2021

Waiting until we emerge from this pandemic will only perpetuate our problems

Posted inHealth

Covid-19: Fast and furious like a runaway car

Ian Siebörger by Ian Siebörger 5 July 20215 July 2021

But we need to take care of the metaphors we use to describe the pandemic

Posted inGeneral

Remembering Shona Bagley and other loved ones

Charmain Naidoo by Charmain Naidoo 2 July 20212 July 2021

Death is everywhere. Charmain Naidoo thinks about her encounters with that dark word and world

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