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Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. A 0.3% tax would generate enough to secure life’s necessities for many tens of millions of the world’s most vulnerable. Photo: File
AFGHANISTAN

G20, endorse a tax on the world’s ultra-rich to feed the world’s starving

A 0.3% tax would generate enough to secure life’s necessities for many tens of millions of the world’s most vulnerable

  • Eric A Friedman & Lawrence O Gostin
6 min read
There has always been a special bond between the liberation struggles in South Africa and Palestine, rooted in their shared experience of brutal settler colonial oppression.
APARTHEID

The blood of South Africa’s past demands we condemn genocide in Gaza

As Archbishop Desmond Tutu said, ‘If you are neutral in the face of suffering, you are on the side of the oppressor’

  • Phakamile Hlubi
7 min read
Shallow graves: More than 100 bodies have been exhumed at Shakahola and autopsies on 40 of the bodies found that the causes of death were starvation, strangulation and suffocation. Photo: Yauyoshi Chiba/AFP
CULT

People tried to stop deadly Kenya cult led by Pastor Mackenzie

The leader of the starvation cult, which killed at least 90 people, was repeatedly arrested — and repeatedly released

  • Rael Ombuor
3 min read
The commencement date of the amendments has not yet been proclaimed. File photo.
ALCOHOL
Video

It’s not a case of jobs or lives. Jobs are lives

Starvation is driving the spread of the coronavirus and the government needs to let people work and create jobs

  • Charles R Stith
5 min read
The warning signs couldn’t be clearer that we need to act now to prevent millions dying from starvation (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP)
AFRICA

Preventing Covid-19 from becoming a hunger crisis in Africa

The warning signs couldn’t be clearer that we need to act now to prevent millions dying from starvation

  • Mimi Alemayehou
7 min read
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni (right) and President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Sumaya Hisham/Reuters)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

SA lockdown: Coercing the poor, coddling the rich?

The Ramaphosa Presidency has been praised for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but the compensating measures that accompany it are inadequate to protect much of the…

  • Seán Muller
20 min read