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Hugo ka Canham is a writer and professor of psychology. His book, Riotous Deathscapes, will be available from Duke University Press in 2023. He writes in his personal capacity.
We are at the mercy of ageing infrastructure, corrupt municipal workers and city officials who have lost control over Johannesburg
The zama zamas trapped in old mines will join the ghosts of 150 years of inhumane exploitation
We can thread the genealogy through our long history, which is imbricated in ongoing racial capitalism that literally eats our bodies to feed wealth and deepen inequality
Is there anyone who is happy with their lives and with the social, economic and political life of the country?
Worshippers use the river as a place of baptism but people drown in its water polluted by illegal dumping and poor service delivery
It is both inward and outward-looking … showing we care for each other should carry more weight than wearing traditional clothing
With nothing to look forward to and no respect, how can we expect unemployed, beaten-down young people to behave as if they have a stake in the future?
Zama zamas and foreigners have been made fall guys for the ills in our societies but ultimately politicians will have to take responsibility for their failings
The poet, writer, artist and activist, who made rubbish of race, left his mark on all aspects of our lives
We cannot allow the mathematics of racial capital stop us from bearing ethical witness to the death of the marginalised majority
As J Edgar Hoover did during his long tenure as FBI boss, South Africa’s former spy chief has seemingly amassed potentially damaging information on leading figures in the ANC
It’s right to be angry about a white student peeing on a black student’s books, but what about poor people who have to live close to urine and faeces
Durban and the eThekwini region was in decline – fuelled by corruption and political killings – before the deadly floods sank it
When the infrastructure breaks, the social fabric frays, rape escalates and taps run dry, we curse the foreigner, who is always from another African country
