From 1 January 2023, hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans and their children will no longer be able to live, work and go to school legally in the republic. As deadline approaches Zimbabweans face a stark choice: start from zero in a broken country or live undocumented in SA.
Politics and Society Understanding the Zimbabwean permit case
Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans living in South Africa may find themselves undocumented on 1 January 2023. About 178,000 Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders will find themselves undocumented. The Helen Suzman Foundation is trying to stop this.
Politics and Society Economics likely to trump ethnicity in Kenya’s August poll
Kenya’s upcoming elections could be the beginning of a shift from ethnic to class and issue-based politics.
Politics and Society Want to run for office in Kenya? Here’s how much it’ll cost you
The transactional nature of politics reduces opportunities for debate and dialogue between elected officials and their constituents.
Politics and Society Cartoon | Some animals are more equal than others
The Maasai Indigenous community in Loliondo, in Tanzania’s northern district of Ngorongoro are being violently uprooted from their ancestral land by Tanzanian authorities.
Politics and Society UK work visa for elite graduates is exclusive and based on flawed assumptions
The UK is offering an elite visa for well-off graduates from elite institutions to stay temporarily in the UK.
Arts, Culture and Sport Afrofuturism or Africanfuturism is the difference important?
The term Afrofuturism is being rejected by writers of African descent because it is a distinctly different genre that should not be used interchangeably with Africanfuturism. The latter centres the African point of view, experience, culture, themes, and history with technology-based in Africa, not the diaspora.
Arts, Culture and Sport Sex workers in Nigeria deserve fair treatment from the media
The study reveals a consistently biased and negative depiction of sex workers by news media in Nigeria. Sex work is abhorred in many African societies. But, “Why is it that a practice so thoroughly disapproved, so widely outlawed … can yet flourish so universally?”
Politics and Society DRC’s fallen son Patrice Lumumba returns home
A gold-capped tooth which is all that remains of assassinated Pan-Africanist Patrice Lumumba, has been handover to his family by the Belgium government. After 61 years, the former Prime Minister can finally be laid to rest, and the full breadth of his execution has been laid bare for the world to see.