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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMining and employment: community struggles in Tunisia and South Africa
Extractivism all-over the African continent is still appropriating and exploiting natural resources and destroying...
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Published in: 50.50Evangelicals in South Africa are 'broadcasting hate masked as morality'
Christian right groups are adding to an already dangerous environment for women and LGBTQI individuals, by pushing...
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Published in: 50.50“Mum, I am into kink”: why it’s so hard to talk to parents about sex
Talking about cunnilingus with parents may sound like a type of medieval torture. But we pay for silence in lost...
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Published in: HomeActivism and political organising in academia: a conversation with Ilan Pappe
Maybe resistance over Palestine in academe is part of a larger project: the creation of a fundamental change in the...
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Published in: 50.50“It’s so taboo but we want it so damn bad”: introducing 50.50 columnists Tiffany Mugo and Claudia Torrisi
These 50.50 authors will delight and challenge us with monthly comment and analysis about sexuality in Africa, and...
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Published in: HomeHyper-political anti-politics
Are we standing on the brink of a new kind of nihilistic governmentality, where politics is turned into perpetual...
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Published in: HomeApartheid references in Israel
The attempt to outlaw the use of the term "apartheid" in relation to Israel and its occupation has to be recognised...
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Published in: HomeMining in South Africa: radical resistance
The oppression and exploitation of mining communities means that even within our democracy, the legacy of the...
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Published in: HomeThe battle for minds, and role of human behaviour in generating plutocracies
The control or influence of information is diffused through education, politics, culture, media and the process of...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCommunity philanthropy is about invisibility
“You do not have to sit here waiting for someone to ask. You need to go out there and create the networks”, says...
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Published in: 50.50Stay Woke: sustaining feminist organising in an uncertain world
Autonomous feminist spaces must be guarded jealously. They are an important lifeline for feminists to re-charge and...
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Published in: 50.50Oscar Pistorius: shooting to kill
Can a white man be morally absolved if it is decided that he meant to shoot an ‘imaginary black intruder’ rather...
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Published in: HomeA human economy approach to development
Money buys the machines that control people’s access to work. Humanity’s task is to reverse that order.
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Published in: digitaLibertiesBritain’s Investigatory Powers Bill: a gift to securocrats everywhere
Given the real and present dangers, surely governments should use any and all means to protect their citizens? Right? Wrong.
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Published in: 50.50COP21: forget 'the future', we need a more radical present
As COP21 meets, people around the world already realise the devastating impacts of climate change. Instead of acting...
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Published in: 50.50South Africa: white fear, black anger and student protests
Student protests across South Africa have heralded a new generation of political activists. ‘Born free’ into...
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Published in: HomeSouth Africa’s twin rebellions: bifurcated protest
Although there were no city-centre protests of the kind seen in Cairo, in 2012, using protests per capita as a...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesDon’t let the spies grab your metadata
Secrecy may have a grubbier motive, forcing state agencies to keep information from the public to prevent a backlash...
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Published in: HomeWomen and the xenophobia narrative in South Africa
Women who are victims of xenophobia are seen as betraying their ‘nation’ by not conforming to their roles: and South...
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Published in: HomeIt is 20 years since a great anti-death penalty judgement
Although the Mandela government was abolitionist, the attorney general of Witwatersrand pressed for the death...