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Revolution: Three decades into democracy, South Africa remains trapped between constitutional freedom and the unresolved realities of land dispossession, inequality and economic exclusion. Photo: JMK
AUTSHUMAO

It is time for the Second Republic

Our private and political lives are always punctuated by upheavals and storms. These moments signal the direction we should take. The unfolding political and economic crisis in…

  • Muzi Sikhakhane
8 min read
KHAN YUNIS, GAZA – NOVEMBER 6: People search through buildings, destroyed during Israeli air raids in the southern Gaza Strip on November 6, 2023 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. The Israeli army has expanded its military assault. The Gaza strip, a besieged Palestinian territory, is under heavy bombing from Israel in response to the large-scale attack carried out on October 7 by Hamas in Israel. The international community is stepping up pressure for a humanitarian truce. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE

Israel’s ‘settler logic of elimination’

Israel’s seemingly limitless brutality is rooted in ‘the logic of dehumanisation’

  • Drew Forrest
8 min read
SALFIT, WEST BANK, PALESTINE – 2023/07/14: Israeli soldiers surround Palestinian protesters at a time of prayer during a demonstration against the illegal establishment of Jewish settlements on Palestinian lands, in the village of Deir Istiya, west of Salfit Governorate. (Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
SETTLER COLONIALISM

Unpacking coloniality and settler-colonialism: The case of Palestine

In many ways, Palestinians are abandoned because they are without an economy of power

  • Nadira Omarjee
5 min read