The Price Of Survival
South Africa’s municipalities are collapsing under a neoliberal model that treats water, electricity, and sanitation as commodities to be sold rather than rights to be guaranteed.
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Weak Leadership Is Fueling Migrant Crisis
As South Africa grows more volatile, migrants face a relentless squeeze—caught in a grinding crisis shaped less by sudden catastrophe than by the steady erosion of protection, options, and…
Broken Promises and Weak Leadership Trap Migrants in Peril
South Africa’s deepening socio-economic crisis has fuelled an atmosphere of toxic rage. As conditions deteriorate, migrants are caught in an ever-tightening vice: rising local resentment…
The Demographic Dividend No One Wants To Pay
Africa’s youth have been called the continent’s greatest asset so many times that the phrase has lost its weight. Assets are meant to be invested in. The real question is who benefits from…
Pipe by Pipe, Road by Road: Lobishe’s Herculean Mission to Rebuild Nelson Mandela Bay
She promised not to disappoint anyone. For a city that had been let down so many times, those were bold words. But Mayor Babalwa Lobishe is quietly making good — one repaired bridge, one…
The Courage to Blow the Whistle on Graft Carries a Death Sentence
Corruption in our country does not fear the law. It does not fear the state. In fact, it has learned to fear nothing at all — and one woman's death, filmed and distributed like a warning…