Scores of people walk home along the N2 highway after being left stranded by a taxi strike.
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Who the taxi strike affected, where and how shows the violent reality of the city’s spatial injustice.
Residents clean up the streets and local businesses after looting incidents in Alexandra, Johannesburg.
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Much of the commentary on the July riots, which cost over 300 lives and billions of rands in damage to the economy, has neglected the long history of violent protests in the country.
The reporting of South Africa’s first COVID-19 case sparked a racialised discourse that persists.
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We’d all love to know more about our neighbours – from COVID-19 data, census data and other official data sources – but we shouldn’t.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela with former American world boxing champion Marvin Hagler. The undated photo was taken after Mandela’s release.
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Prison life is about routine: each day like the one before; each week like the one before it, so that the months and years blend into each other.
South Africa’s child support grant helps fight poverty among children up to the age of 18.
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The child support grant, as a policy instrument, cannot work alone in ensuring that young people thrive and succeed.
Soweto in South Africa. Apartheid’s spacial planning still affects people’s lives.
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The high costs of finding work make it difficult for young South Africans to get jobs.