The Palestinians won’t get a state this week. But they will prove – if they get enough votes in the General Assembly and if Mahmoud Abbas does not succumb to his characteristic grovelling in the face of US-Israeli power – that they are worthy of statehood. And they...
The South African government’s climate change policy is rooted in a green neoliberal capitalism: reliance on market mechanisms, technological innovation and expanding markets. Underlying all these strategies is the broad process of commodification: the transformation...
In 1994 the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) set a target for the transfer of 30% of land to black ownership within 5 years. But 17 years later, no more than 7% has been transferred. What are the causes of this dismal performance?First, the ‘willing...
The mass strike on Wednesday was only nominally about e-tolling on public roads and the problem of labour brokers. It was, in fact, a serious shot across the bow of government about the deteriorating conditions faced by wage earners, the poor and the unemployed....
There’s no question that the debate, in and around the media, ignited by the ANC’s response to Brett Murray’s painting has been voluminous and intense in equal measure. And there have been important insights and lessons learned amongst the sound and...
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