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Bigger than Sharpeville: Story of South Africa’s worst apartheid-era massacre retold

Review: Bloody Sunday: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre by Mignonne Breier

Protesters gather during a “Black Lives Matter” protest near Barclays Center on May 29, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, in outrage after George Floyd, an unarmed black man, died while being arrested by a police officer in Minneapolis who pinned him to the ground with his knee. – Demonstrations are being held across the US after George Floyd died in police custody on May 25. (Angela Weiss / AFP)

The economic effects of racism are more deadly than Covid-19

A recent report shows that racism has cost the US economy $16-trillion in growth over the past two decades. If the financial-services industry wants to show that Black Lives…

HIV funding cuts fall hardest on key populations: sex workers, gay and bisexual men, transgender women and people who inject drugs — who have a much higher chance of getting HIV and depend heavily on specialised, donor-funded services which the government has been slow to take over. (Dylan Bush, Bhekisisa)

Sex work and soccer: More alike than you think?

One in three sex workers in South Africa say they’ve been raped by a police officer. Could a change in the law solve this?

The way it is: Donald Glover

Childish Gambino shows us America

‘This is America’ comes amid the world’s leisurely smartphone view of the United States’ ongoing political and cultural pandemonium.

Public Order Police shoot rubber bullets

Editorial: Cops are shooting down democracy

Have South Africans become inured to heavy-handed police action in response to protests, as it did during apartheid and back in the colonial conquest?

The Facebook data breach involving the UK political consultancy

Big drop in cop killings, but SA still relatively dangerous for cops

SA remains a relatively dangerous country in which to serve as a police officer, despite a 52% drop in the rate of cop killings over the past decade.

The High Court in Pretoria found Ntlemeza’s appointment to the Hawks to be unlawful and ruled that he be removed from office.

The weekly pop sack: A secret, a poser and a burnt Ntlemeza

The Democratic Alliance thought it would strike while the iron is hot and lead another march to the provincial treasury in Limpopo.

Web archives open up the truth about Marikana

Web archives open up the truth about Marikana

New web archives give the public access to the full range of evidence from the Farlam commission.

ANC treasurer general Dr Zweli Mkhize says that

​Police violence results from a lack of direction

And they will continue to abuse their power until accountability and structural problems are fixed.

Police efforts to clamp down on #FeesMustFall protests intensified this week.

​Sasco to ANC: Test free education

They presented a list of new demands, including raising the fees funding cap to R900 000.

The outcome of the ANC’s long-awaited KwaZulu-Natal conference was a win for the Thuma Mina crowd. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Student leader shot in the back thirteen times

The shooting took place outside the university’s careers and counselling development unit.

Various factors cause violent protests: authorities ignoring peaceful protests and reacting to violence with violence

​Universities’ security path ups the ante

Ironically, they ignore ample research about how protests turn violent when policing escalates.

The signal jamming at the State of the Nation 2015 was a violation of the right of the public to be fully informed of proceedings in the House. Signal jamming is unlawful

Protesters use the media, but they and the police turn on journalists

Reporting is essential in a democracy but police and demonstrators don’t always see it that way.

Go-to mode: Physical violence is our default option and it’s maintained through the generations.

​We’re a society steeped in violence

The likelihood of being offed, especially if it’s linked to politics and power, is pretty high.

The higher education director general, Gwebinkundla Qonde, also condemned the torching of university property, saying it was “a barbaric act”.

Fed-up UKZN says destroying property is not going to help gain free education

‘Tensions are on the increase and we are very concerned.’

Thousands take to US streets to protest police violence

Demonstrators block roads as public outcry over the fatal shootings of two black men by law enforcement officials intensifies.

When dog bites man really is the story

The world hasn’t changed; what’s changed is our ability to pass off the grotesque as unremarkable