A quarter of South Africans in cities are living in informal settlements.
African identities Enforced equality in parenting: The beginning of mandatory paternal responsibility?
Equal parenting is a concept that is gaining traction as more men push for active roles in child-rearing and more women call for a shift in normative parenting roles. In many African countries, this concept could help overturn paternal absenteeism.
Politics and Society Tanzanians hard hit by trafficking in people with albinism
The silent and deadly trade is one of the most lucrative and harmful forms of human trafficking.
Politics and Society Zimbabweans show anger at service for Elvis Nyathi
Mourners who came to support the family of the migrant killed by a mob in Diepsloot did not hold back as they expressed who they really hold accountable for his death.
Politics and Society Get rich or die tryin — Treacherous trek to the West
Africans are leaving the continent in droves. Dashed hopes, unmet aspirations, lose of faith in their governments, botched up elections, mega corruption, theft of public coffers and unbridled poverty, which have led to fatalism and unmitigated Afro-pessimism. These are some of the reasons which are driving Africa’s potential and greatest investment – the indomitable youth – to risk their lives in the hands of ruthless sea merchants.
Politics and Society Russia-Ukraine crisis highlights Africa’s need to diversify its wheat sources
The sourcing of wheat has factored into the political and strategic decisions and security of many countries.
Politics and Society Zimbabwe’s Game of Totems – Nelson Chamisa’s Pentecostal iconoclasm is the scream of symbolic castration
Zimbabwe has two infamous iconoclasts. Nelson Chamisa and Dambudzo Marechera. One is a Pentecostal dream-twister, and the other, an atheist prankster. Both are on record denouncing spirits of the dead, national symbols and indigenous religious beliefs. At face value, their irreverence is a sign of elitism and intolerance. On a deeper level, it is the crying out of the symbolically castrated. Marechera reminds us that no return to origins is innocent. Chamisa uses the Bible to settle scores with his political enemies, having been robbed of his former party’s spiritual capital and beaten to the commandeering of social memory by Zanu PF.
Politics and Society Xenophobia is on the rise in South Africa: scholars weigh in on the migrant question
There is no evidence that international migrants are a major cause of unemployment in South Africa. Misinformation drives this misconception.
Politics and Society Diepsloot migrant family distraught and unbelieving
The wife and four children of Mbodazwe Banajo “Elvis” Nyathi, who was brutally killed in a xenophobic attack, are reeling from the shock, while other migrants live in fear.