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Tribute honours legacy of Rev Jesse Jackson and his solidarity with South Africa

Jackson was awarded South Africa’s National Order of the Companions of OR Tambo in Silver in 2013

  • Kibo Ngowi
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Former international relations minister Naledi Pandor said without confronting material complicity, the initiative risked becoming “pleasant, but ineffectual”. Photo: Hasina Kathrada

At Hague Group meeting, frustration over failure of global institutions to constrain Israel’s conduct

Speakers described a system in which legal norms are applied selectively, allowing powerful states and their allies to evade accountability

  • Stella Mapenzauswa
7 min read
CAMP Cultural Workers Laboratory paint a mural in solidarity with calls for an Energy Embargo for Palestine on Jan Smuts Ave. Photo: Supplied

Art as a weapon

We recognise how narratives are vehicles of power, as they shape who is seen as Human, who is believed, and whose suffering matters

  • Eyaaz
7 min read
Sun and solidarity: From left: Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Andries Nel, human-rights advocate and LGBTQIA+ activist Dr Thulani Mhlongo, Deputy Minister of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Steve Letsike; LGBTQIA+ and human-rights activist, and Dr Bev Ditsie. Photo: Angelo Louw

Pride, protest and power: Who really owns queer liberation in Joburg?

Amid boycotts and protests, queer Joburg found something radical at Zoo Lake — a Pride rooted in love, agency and authenticity

  • Eyaaz
6 min read
BAKU, AZERBAIJAN – NOVEMBER 11: Protesters, in an apparent reference to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, demonstrate on the opening day of the UNFCCC COP29 Climate Conference on November 11, 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

SA accused of double standards for selling coal to Israel while condemning ‘genocide’ in Gaza

Pro-Palestine groups at the COP29 conference are arguing that there is a clear link between climate rights and human rights

  • Eyaaz
5 min read
South Africa’s Jewish and Muslim communities have condemned the killing of Halima Hoosen-Preston and the knife assault on her family at their home in Durban, in what appears to be an Islamophobic attack. (Cornel van Heerden/Gallo)

Durban woman murdered in alleged Islamophobic attack

Halima Hoosen-Preston was killed in her home apparently after an altercation with a local man whose relatives were killed in Israel

  • Eyaaz
5 min read