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14 Dec 2021 5 minute read

Saving the Wild Coast from Big Oil

Mike Loewe reports from South Africa on the community fighting to stop Shell from exploration along its...

27 Jul 2021 4 minute read

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Zuma is still clinging to power, citizens are paying the price

South Africa’s recent uprisings have revealed how much of a tinderbox the country is, argues Glen Retief....

Colour-co-ordinated laundry hanging out to dry in the background, children play in the parking lot of Cissie Gool House, an unused government hospital in the Woodstock neighbourhood, occupied by 700 evictees from the area since 2017.LERATO MADUN

22 Jun 2021 6 minute read

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Fighting dispossession

Citizens’ groups are resisting gentrification, evictions and housing inequality in urban South Africa in a variety of...

1 Dec 2020 3 minute read

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Letter from Johannesburg

Yewande Omotoso ponders how belonging to a city goes beyond the bald fact of living in it.

28 Oct 2020 3 minute read

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Letter from Johannesburg

Green medicine: Yewande Omotoso’s apartment is slowly being taken over by plants, much to her delight.

26 Jul 2020 3 minute read

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Ways of belonging

Having travelled to the land of her birth as the coronavirus pandemic began to gather pace, Yewande Omotoso...

9 Jun 2020 3 minute read

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The two Yewandes of Jo’burg

Yewande Omotoso’s namesake leads her down some unusual pathways.

16 Apr 2020 3 minute read

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Race and the city

Yewande Omotoso reflects on why no-nonsense Johannesburg is the place that suits her best.

African National Congress (ANC) election posters are seen on street poles in Alexandra township, in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 10, 2019. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

13 Jan 2020 3 minute read

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Letter from Johannesburg

Yewande Omotoso moves through the unknowable city, looking and listening.

29 May 2019 1 minute read

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Photo essay: South Africa’s born-frees

This year, South Africa marks 25 years since its first democratic elections. Ilvy Njiokiktjien photographs the young South...

14 Oct 2018 5 minute read

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Standing against state violence

The powerful shackdweller’s social movement is mobilizing against assassinations in South Africa. Richard ...

31 May 2018 2 minute read

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Life after Zuma

Zuma’s trial is just one symptom of South Africa’s problems, Neil Thompson reports.

30 Apr 2018 1 minute read

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Introducing... Cyril Ramaphosa

Whatever his shortcomings, Ramaphosa is probably the last chance for the older generation of ANC leadership to make good on...

Liz McDaid and Makoma Lekalakaka in front of the country’s only nuclear power station – Koeberg.

23 Apr 2018 4 minute read

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The Women Who Stopped the Nuclear Deal

Makoma Lekalakala and Liz McDaid won the Goldman Environmental Prize for stopping a secret nuclear deal...

‘Zuma must fall’ protesters with a banner depicting Atul Gupta, implicated in recent scandals. Pic: Discott, CC-BY-SA4.0

1 Feb 2018 4 minute read

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The scandal that was Zuma’s downfall

How corruption in South Africa continues to cost taxpayers billions of rand, by Neil Thompson.

FeesMustFall: Protesters celebrate the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes from the University of Cape Town.

10 Jan 2018 5 minute read

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Over the rainbow: South Africa’s young radicals

South Africa’s first post-apartheid generation has come of age. And they’re not happy with the way the ANC...

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