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Dr Imraan Buccus is a senior research associate at the Auwal Socio-Economic Research Institute and a post-doctoral fellow at the Durban University of Technology.
The new Mazda 3 is a driver’s car that offers old-fashioned reassurance
The Communists don’t feature as a force of any kind in opinion polls and when it has tried its luck in local by-elections it has been routed, at times struggling to get even a…
Xenophobia offers a simple but misleading explanation for a complex crisis. It reframes mass unemployment, failing public services and weak governance as a question of belonging
The uncritical cheerleaders for the West cannot be taken seriously until they acknowledge that the West supports and collaborates with authoritarian regimes such as Saudi Arabia,…
The Dzire has never pretended to be sporty or luxurious. Instead, it has always leaned into being sensible, affordable and easy to live with
Few SUVs manage to balance performance, comfort, and discretion as convincingly as this one
The brilliance of the RS3 lies in its duality. It’s a proper hyper hatch, with performance figures that rival exotic machinery, yet it still offers the practicality of a…
Haval has clearly been paying attention to its customers, refining what was already a winning recipe
Countries around the world are increasingly turning against Israel and its aggression in the Middle East. South Africa’s unions and citizens must join in solidarity with…
At over R1m, the Santa Fe Hybrid Elite AWD isn’t playing in the budget segment, but it’s also not pretending to be
It carries lessons for the ANC in what happens when liberation movements fail to renew themselves, when leaders refuse to step aside and corruption goes unchecked
Influential people in parts of the media, civil society and academia in South Africa echoed Western narratives without scrutiny, but now the tide is slowly turning
The province’s politics is a marketplace of competing interests, where loyalty is transactional and power is a prize to be bartered
Our exports to Israel contradict our anti-genocide stance, fuelling Israel’s war efforts
South Africa spearheading a Global South coalition to enforce international law against Israel will attract a backlash but it’s the right thing to do
Melville was an asset undervalued by the city and universities. It is in decay but it could be restored
Johnson routinely makes statements that he cannot substantiate and are best described as either false, gossip or conspiracy theories
Organisations such as South Africa’s Abahlali baseMjondolo, Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement and the Diggers in England’s 17th century have faced violent repression from the…
The fourth instalment on lessons for the left shows how the Colombian left built a successful electoral project in face of brutal opposition from entrenched elites backed by US…
The third instalment of Lessons for the Left considers what happens when a grassroots resistance movement takes on entrenched neoliberalism
