CSA&GIs it or is it not LGBTIQ+ Pride Month in South Africa?
By Johan Maritz My news feeds on different social media platforms have, since 1 June, been proclaiming that June is Pride Month. Many organisations and groups have now declared June as LGBTIQ+ Pride Month in South Africa and beyond. I am perplexed by this, as it is indeed Pride Month, but in the US! Pride […]
Give a woman a fish
By Christi Kruger In his book, Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New ‘Politics of Distribution’ (2015), James Ferguson discusses the politics surrounding social grants in the Global South at length. He argues that the big “development story” of the last twenty years is not, as many scholars would argue, the story of […]
Ubuntu and solidarity in times of Covid-19: Challenges and contradictions as communities grapple with ways of being and doing during a pandemic
by Vuyisa Mamanzi Vuyisa: Hello, mother sukuvulela’mntu apho endlini, icorona iyabulala…(Hello, mother, do not allow any visitors in the house, corona kills). Mother: Ewe, bahambile. uDade kapriest ebesithi undigqibele kudala, ngoku ke ebezondi bona, uvelela namanye amalungu. (Yes, they have left. It was the priest’s wife, she came to see me because she had not […]