My Reflections on Freedom: The Life of the Indigenous and Marginalised on Freedom Day Article An insight into Freedom Day for dispossessed indigenous people fighting giants to preserve sacred land and water. How can you redevelop sacred land by infilling parts of a river with concrete bulk? By Nadine Dirks
Our Freedoms Have Multiple Truths Article Freedom is not absolute in South Africa and never will be. In fact, the notion of absolute freedom, while it sounds good to say, is an absurd fallacy. By Ling Sheperd
Life Esidimeni: My Reflections on Freedom Article The case of Life Esidimeni is one of the most significant violations of health and human rights in post-apartheid South Africa. By Christine Nxumalo
March 2022 Household Affordability Index and Key Data The average cost of the Household Food Basket increased by R94,39 (2,2%), from R4 355,70 in February 2022 to R4 450,09 in March 2022. pdf
PMBEJD February 2022 Household Affordability Index and Key Data The average cost of the Household Food Basket decreased by R45,33 (-1%), from R4401,02 in January 2022 to R4355,70 in February 2022. pdf
January 2022 Household Affordability Index and Key Data The average cost of the Household Food Basket increased by R349,82 (8,6%), from R4 051,20 in January 2021 to R4 401,02 in January 2022. pdf
Sfiso Buthelezi, the MP Who Derailed Prasa Open Secrets: Unaccountable Who are the board members and executives at Prasa who enabled the looting of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa)? This week we turn to Sfiso Buthelezi, a former deputy minister of finance and current member of Parliament, whose six years as Prasa’s first board chairperson saw the parastatal procurement process systematically undermined and its coffers drained.
A Feminist View of the 2021 Local Government Election Manifestos With this project we considered the three biggest and one newly formed small political parties’ manifestos and hope to provide information to the public on the extent to which parties respond to an intersectional feminist agenda pdf
Municipal Government Crisis: The Solution Lies Far Beyond November Polls Analysis In the first of a series of webinars examining the crisis in local government ahead of the elections on 1 November, activists said there was no doubt that many municipalities were on the verge of collapse. They said the system to deliver services needs a redesign to benefit residents and not politicians. By Estelle Ellis