Analysts have rebuked the economic part of the United States‘s Middle East peace plan for failing to address the main problem that has heavily curbed the Palestinian economy – the 52-year-old Israeli military occupation over the Palestinian territories. The economic plan was released by the White House on Saturday and is set[…]
The youth has cautioned President Cyril Ramaphosa that the time for long-winded talk is over, and now is the time for the government to take serious measures to address the plight that youth face in the country. Young people between the ages of 15 to 34 years old make up[…]
Leila Patel, University of Johannesburg and Lauren Graham, University of Johannesburg On the eve of South Africa’s sixth democratic elections on 8 May, thousands of young people took to Twitter to state reasons for why they had no intention to cast their votes. They used the hashtag #IWantToVoteBut. The trending topic at the time of[…]
Six days after dramatically postponing his swearing-in ceremony as an MP, it looks as if David Mabuza will be returning to Parliament where he left off. Cyril Ramaphosa is currently without a deputy president – or a cabinet, for that matter – after delaying his announcement on who will serve alongside[…]
South Africa’s major political parties have reconvened ahead of the official first session of our sixth Parliament. The dust has settled on the election campaigns, which saw the ANC and the DA lose considerable ground to the likes of the EFF and some smaller parties. It’s a diverse house, and[…]
By Anees Teladia The sociopolitical landscape in the Western Cape is a complex one and an activist from Bishop Lavis has argued that the province remains in the hands of the Democratic Alliance (DA) because of the “politics of race”. In a post that went viral on instant messaging application,[…]
South Africa’s unemployment rate rose by half a percentage point to 27.6 percent, official data showed on Tuesday, underlining the challenge facing President Cyril Ramaphosa after his African National Congress (ANC) government won elections last week. The job losses focussed on the construction, finance and social sectors, with 6.2 million[…]
By Anees Teladia With South Africa already being a site of severe socio-economic inequality, women arguably face another crisis of inequality within the existing one, i.e. gender inequality. Accordingly, the Rita Edwards Collective decided to host an election debate which would allow for a focus on the challenges women face[…]
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