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SAHRC food inquiry — some ministers engage, most retailers evade
Maverick Citizen

SAHRC food inquiry — some ministers engage, most retailers evade

Department of Basic Education minister Siviwe Gwarube and Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi made extensive submissions to the second leg of the SAHRC inquiry into food systems, along with AgriSA and CropLife. However, major retail companies such as PicknPay and Spar did not show – despite retail being central stakeholders in food affordability.

By Lillian Roberts
OPINIONISTA

Murambatsvina to Mabahambe: Xenophobia and the grammar of removal

By Sipho Mthathi
Murambatsvina to Mabahambe: Xenophobia and the grammar of removal
UNFINISHED WORK

Minister’s school pit latrine claims clash with reality on the ground

By Takudzwa Pongweni
Minister’s school pit latrine claims clash with reality on the ground
BIRD STORY AGENCY

Unity in crisis: How African leadership, science and solidarity are leading the Ebola battle

By Rebaona Modutwane
Unity in crisis: How African leadership, science and solidarity are leading the Ebola battle
Maverick Citizen

LISTEN: Season 3 of Maverick Citizen podcast ‘What’s Eating Us?’

By Lillian Roberts
LISTEN: Season 3 of Maverick Citizen podcast ‘What’s Eating Us?’
Meet the people at the heart of the DRC’s response to the ebola epidemic
BIRD STORY AGENCY

Meet the people at the heart of the DRC’s response to the ebola epidemic

By Patrick Kahondwa
Thousands of Zimbabwean children forced to quit schools in SA amid xenophobic unrest
CHASED OUT

Thousands of Zimbabwean children forced to quit schools in SA amid xenophobic unrest

By Takudzwa Pongweni and Tamsin Metelerkamp
Invest in our youth — to avoid inequality wasting a generation
OPINIONISTA

Invest in our youth — to avoid inequality wasting a generation

By Rizwana Bawa
Dear minister, what is the difference between you and Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma?
MIGRANT DIGNITY OP-ED

Dear minister, what is the difference between you and Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma?

By Humanitarian observer
Agrochemical and beef giants avoid SAHRC food system inquiry as hearings resume
PRIVATE SECTOR ACCOUNTABILITY

Agrochemical and beef giants avoid SAHRC food system inquiry as hearings resume

By Lillian Roberts
Elikya’s story: A documented migrant, yet her home was burnt down by vigilantes
XENOPHOBIC VIOLENCE

Elikya’s story: A documented migrant, yet her home was burnt down by vigilantes

By Lerato Mutsila
How primary healthcare provision is split between SA’s 3 spheres of government
SPOTLIGHT

How primary healthcare provision is split between SA’s 3 spheres of government

By Christina Pitt
STRONGER THAN FEAR OP-ED

The day the buses left: Confronting xenophobia and rediscovering our humanity

By Deon Snyman
The day the buses left: Confronting xenophobia and rediscovering our humanity
FOOD BASKET CHECK

A rigged system: How SRD grant barriers are denying vulnerable South Africans support

By Lillian Roberts
A rigged system: How SRD grant barriers are denying vulnerable South Africans support
CARTOON

Loud and Clear?

By Nathi and UBUNTOONS
Loud and Clear?
CHILD PROTECTION PART 3

Hunted into exile: Gang terror forces Cape Flats activist to flee, splitting family

By Tamsin Metelerkamp
OPINIONISTA

Beyond the bootstrap narrative: Reframing youth entrepreneurship in SA as a social justice imperative

By Gugu Nonjinge
TRANSFERABLE HATE OP-ED

Harmful attitudes towards LGBTI people and immigrants should be a warning sign to everyone

By Caio de Araújo
CLEANING UP

From pigs to plants — Self-sufficiency in small-town Genadendal

By Lillian Roberts
The economy of hatred: What the anti-migrant wave tells us about SA’s broken economic model
IDEOLOGY OF SCARCITY OP-ED

The economy of hatred: What the anti-migrant wave tells us about SA’s broken economic model

Decades of economic failure has created genuine desperation, into which an ideological campaign by mainstream economic actors has injected the false idea that we are trapped in a world of scarcity. And into this world political entrepreneurs have inserted the figure of the migrant as the illegitimate queue-jumper.

By Gilad Isaacs
XENOPHOBIC UNREST

What it feels like to flee SA for your life as a documented migrant

By Rebecca Davis and Siyabonga Goni
XENOPHOBIC UNREST

Businesses looted, children traumatised — anti-migrant protesters turn on foreign and local traders

By Lerato Mutsila, Reitumetse Pilane and Bheki C. Simelane
CHILD PROTECTION PART 2

Community-led interventions crucial for healing children exposed to violence in SA

By Tamsin Metelerkamp and Takudzwa Pongweni
TURNING POINT

Tuesday, 30 June 2026 — the day the SA state ceded power to rabble-rousers

By Mondli Makhanya
More than a game: the public health battle playing out at Fifa World Cup
Sportswashing

More than a game: the public health battle playing out at Fifa World Cup

By Lillian Roberts and Daniélle Schaafsma
Terror and tears as Malawians are forced to abandon their lives in SA
XENOPHOBIC UNREST

Terror and tears as Malawians are forced to abandon their lives in SA

By Lerato Mutsila
Why boys lag at school in SA, and what masculinity has to do with it
EDUCATION OP-ED

Why boys lag at school in SA, and what masculinity has to do with it

By Wessel van den Berg, Tania Beard and Cody Ragonese
Reclaiming ourselves in a time of hate as 30 June undermines our collective humanity
OPINIONISTA

Reclaiming ourselves in a time of hate as 30 June undermines our collective humanity

By Pregs Govender
When rape kits run out, survivors pay the price
SYSTEM FAILURE OP-ED

When rape kits run out, survivors pay the price

By Sino Mdunjeni and Jeanne Bodenstein

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