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Done waiting: Campbell Meas, winner of this year’s National Playwright Competition at the National Arts Festival. Photo: Boipelo Khunou

Campbell Meas is done waiting

A candid look at Campbell Meas’s journey navigating creativity, identity and the challenges of breaking into the arts industry

You may not: Trade unions and May Day celebrations and rallies trace their roots back to medieval Europe. Photo: Nic Bothman/EPA

May Day: From the maypole to the picket line

Trade unions are still the best way of organising resistance to the violence of capitalism

(Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Global capital distribution’s tipping point and SA’s precarious path

Urgent reform is needed as dangerous socio-economic undercurrents swirl

A-list: South African musician Letta Mbulu should have been on Apple’s list, the writer says. Photo: Getty Images

Apple’s Top 100 List: A coalition of Rock and Pop, but at what cost?

We South Africans know our coalitions (we’ll probably see more after our elections) and the recently released Apple Music 100 Best Albums list smells exactly like one

Most South Africans agree that the country is in a mess and that the ANC must go if there is to be any chance of a second building of a new South Africa.

A different, better South Africa needs more than just blaming the ANC

We need to begin any analysis with the realisation that capitalism has few winners

It’s time to end the societal pursuit of growth

We live in a system doing the exact opposite of what it was designed for

60 years since the Sharpeville Massacre. Photo: Supplied

South Africa’s market-led democracy undermines human rights

Deepening economic democracy through human rights-centred economic and social policy frameworks

Unhealthy state of affairs: Nehawu members protest outside Bheki Mlangeni Hospital in Soweto on Wednesday. Photo: Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images

Nehawu strike: Capitalism has led to a crisis of humanity

Ethics of protest are called into question as union’s action sees the lives of sick people put at risk and women in labour turned away from hospitals

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping before an extended-format meeting of heads of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit (SCO) member states in Samarkand, Uzbekistan September 16, 2022. Sputnik/Sergey Bobylev/Pool via Afp

Facing up to the damaging and disruptive economic realities of 2022

Economic war rages on as global power dynamics shift.

Reminder: The miners’ strike (above) at Anglo Platinum in Marikana ended in tragedy when corporate power colluded with the state. Photo: Madelene Cronjé

Unions essential to working class in a capitalist society

Capitalism’s aim is to maximise profit, even when it is exploitative, so unions have a crucial role but must ensure their slates are clean

(John McCann/M&G)

Inequality defines the nature of South Africa’s economy

This cannot be rectified without redistributing wealth and property – and therefore power

OPINION | The ANC is not the only obstacle to change

To reimagine a better South Africa, capitalism and its unequal class structure have to be challenged

(Photo by Michael Cohen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Much more than the ANC needs to go to forge a better South Africa

The class structure and capitalism have to be challenged to reimagine a viable and just country

A vendor in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

OPINION| China is retooling the capitalist paradigm

The forms of capitalism adopted in the West and in economies such as China are influenced by how early or late those polities were in coming to the game

(John McCann/M&G)

South African media, nationalisation and the spectre of investor confidence

Commercial media reproduces the views of the dominant class and has been unable to unpack the underlying failures of capitalism

The Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Traditional Council and Observatory Civic Association says that application for leave to appeal interim interdict is attempt to save face

Right of reply: A rejoinder to the Zenprop chief executive about Amazon’s HQ

Zenprop chief executive James Tannenberger, who stands to benefit financially from the River Club development, failed to address the substantive points of our original article

US President Joe Biden listens as Vice president Kamala Harris (L) speaks during an event at the White House with members of the National Governors Association on January 31, 2022 in Washington, DC. The National Governors Association concludes its three day winter meeting today.  (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

US politicians paper over the social problems caused by capitalism

Mainstream American politicians — establishment figures in both major parties — apply the denial and displacement mantra to many problems, especially inflation

Umbrellas, 2020. The image will be shown as part of Of Blood, Sweat and Data, which forms part of FNB Art Joburg’s Open City programme. (Photo: Nonzuzo Gxekwa)

‘Of Blood, Sweat and Data’: Everyone goes to the mall

‘Of Blood, Sweat and Data’, on show as part of FNB Art Joburg’s Open City programme, hopes to alter the way art lovers view Johannesburg — and photography

‘Squid Game’ is an explicit critique of the current mode of capitalism. (John McCann/M&G)

South Africans are trapped in a ‘Squid Game’

‘Squid Game’ is an explicit critique of the current mode of capitalism. But far too much popular discourse has overlooked or neglected its sociopolitical messages.

Uncaring society: A man who was killed outside a vandalised mall in Vosloorus  in Gauteng on July 14 was one of 337 people who died during the looting and violence that rocked parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng in July. (Marco Longari/AFP)

Racial capitalism destroys ubuntu

South Africans’ behaviour and attitudes show that poor black working-class people, and black women in particular, are denied their innate humanity