Dismantling Gender Boxes: Right to Complex Sexual Identities
The Caster Semenya story left many South Africans feeling confused whilst also strongly sympathising with Semenya in her humiliating experience. …
In the community
Ditching the poor?: The Municipal Infrastructure Framework
South Africa faces an acute infrastructure problem. Patrick Bond looks at government’s solution to these problems and concludes that it …
Dirty work of democracy: A year on the streets with the SAPS by Antony Altbeker (Jonathan Ball) and Transforming the Robocops: changing police in South Africa by Monique Marks (UKZN Press)
This article reviews the above two titles. Review by Karl von Holdt. Attachments Review. The dirty work of democracy. …
Discrimination
By Paul Benjamin, Centre for Applied Legal Studies Attachments Discrimination (802 kB)
Dealing with Domestic Violence
Many women have experienced domestic violence or know someone who has. Anneke Meerkotter explains the different forms domestic violence can …
Debating broad alliance
Progressive organisations are discussing the issue of forming alliances with forces in the ‘middle ground’ and forces in the ‘ruling …
Cutting standards
GDE Attachments Cutting standards, Bridget Kenny_0 (2 MB)
Crisis returns to Xolobeni
After their mining rights were revoked, MRC has made a fresh application on mining prospecting rights and the Amadiba community …
Crucial Local Councillors: How Can They Better Perform?
Everyone in South Africa knows that the quality of local government delivery is uneven and sometimes disastrous. Thabo Rapoo and …
Court challenge to chiefs’ land powers
Government took years to produce the Communal Land Rights Act, but its arrival has created more problems than solving them. …