Why the tree is producing bad apples
Corruption is South Africa’s pandemic—one that has been disenfranchising and killing people long before our transition to democracy.
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Golda Gatsey
Golda Gatsey is a freelance writer and customer relationship manager.
Lay him down on a high mountain
What is the South African political leader Robert Sobukwe’s legacy today?
A revolution deferred
As we remember the Arab Spring, the starting point should not be that it failed, but that it’s incomplete. Watch it live on Youtube and subscribe to our Patreon for the archive.
Unchain my art
The system to pay out royalties to musicians in South Africa says a lot about the racial inequalities in the local industry.
Don’t cede the streets
#FeesMustFall was the most serious challenge to the post-apartheid political order, but didn’t connect to broader working-class struggles. Now, despite police brutality, students are beginning to make those linkages.
The pathology of economics
COVID-19 exposes the deadly dominance of neoclassical economics in Africa.
The imagined immorality of refuge
Behind the anxieties about tackling forced displacement and terror, is the recognizable lexicon of racialized difference. This all infuses the practice of humanitarianism.
Economic crime in the Niger Delta
Shell and its counterparts in the oil industry in Nigeria must accept responsibility for horrors that result from their quests for profit. Everything else is just PR.
Two tales against neocolonialism
Working-class men try unsuccessfully to integrate themselves into new economies in the films of Ousmane Sembene and Mrinal Sen.
Capital in flight
Social policy is essential to creating more just African countries. Why is it not the norm across the continent?
Abandoning racial language
If we stop using terms to describe race at all, we risk undermining our struggle to eliminate racism.
Unearthing the past
How a new film about the murder of anti-apartheid activist Dulcie September helps to unearth South Africa’s unresolved past. Stream it live on YouTube. Also subscribe to Patreon.
The value of care
2020 has given us an archive of heart-breaking examples of the politically transformative power of care.
South African history through new ears
Is the future of podcasting a show featuring isiZulu retellings of 19th-century African life combined with an original soundscape composed with a revolutionary ethos?
Death by betrayal
Tanzania’s workers are at the highest risk for COVID-19 infections and deaths. Why are trade unions not taking action?
If we lie down, we are dead
Student militancy has revived in Burkinabè public universities over the past decade. Now, a student movement could slowly transform society.
People are the state
What would happen if people could transform state policy based on the principle of social justice? The AIDS struggle in South Africa has some lessons.
Ghana’s moral panic
Enough of the ignorance: LGBT+ rights are Ghanaian and human rights, not an attempt by Westerners to impose their values or culture.
Take the soul from everyone, and the liberty of all
The treatment of victims of rape and sexual violence in Senegal, a country in which the bodies of women have always been an arena for political battles.
Bill Gates and his technofix dream for the planet
Philanthrocapitalists are driving massively profitable schemes dressed up as eco-friendly, pro-poor solutions to climate disaster.