WHO Must Declare Climate Change a Public Health Emergency
Climate change is an immediate threat to the world’s most vulnerable communities and people.
Women
Global Sexual Health: Why Communal Knowledge About Pleasure and Wellbeing Matters
Global sexual health should move beyond simply exporting interventions from the west to Africa.
One Third of Food Is Lost or Wasted: How to Help Farmers Cut Post-harvest Losses
Investments should support entire value chains, linking farmers to storage, processing, transport and reliable markets.
Study of 20,000 Nigerians Explores the Links Between Drug Use, Climate Change and Poverty
A staggering 67.5% of respondents relied on maladaptive coping strategies.
Understanding More About Navi Pillay and Her Work
Under the warmth and good humour is a formidable, steely grit.
Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize Is a Vote of Confidence in a Global Legal Order Under Fire
Recognising Pillay is an affirmation of what has been achieved, but also about what must not be lost.
Protest Later or Push for Better Planning Now? 7 Actions South African Voters Can Take Before Local Elections
Potholes and water outages often begin with bad planning. A town planner explains seven ways South Africans can push municipalities to do better.
Yet Another Brutal Farm Murder
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) herewith extends its deepest condolences to the friends and family of Mrs Hannetjie van Zyl (55), who tragically became the latest victim of a brutal farm murder last night (Monday, 5 October). Mrs Van Zyl was struck over the head with so much force at her farm gate on […]
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79 Deaths a Day: South Africa’s Diabetes Crisis Needs a New Strategy
Diabetes is manageable. With timely support, people can lead long, healthy lives free from preventable complications.
Teenage Girls May Know How to Prevent Pregnancy – That Doesn’t Mean They Have the Power to Do It
Teenage pregnancy makes visible the pressures, relationships and reproductive conditions that shape young people’s lives across southern Africa.
Demolishing Lagos Informal Settlements Also Destroys the City’s Best Defences Against Climate Change
Residents whose homes cluster along waterways, canals and shorelines have built organised systems for living with climate change.
White Cross Monument: Every Cross an Irrefutable Testimony to the Reality of Farm Murders
The leader of the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus), Dr Corné Mulder, today attended a ceremony to plant 17 crosses for farm murder victims at the White Cross Monument on the Ysterberg in Limpopo where he formally handed over the crosses to be planted. Two of the crosses were replanted. The other 15 represent murders […]
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Rubio’s Message Is Clear: No More Delays in Addressing the USA’s Conditions
The contempt that President Cyril Ramaphosa and his administration have demonstrated in ignoring the conditions set by the United States (US) for normalising relations between the two countries for more than a year is now leading to serious and direct consequences. The new policy recently announced by the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, aimed […]
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Kempton Park Femicide: Telling Women What to Do Doesn’t Stop Predatory Men
Seven women are dead, but the messages we keep sending are wrong.
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Police Must Act Following Discovery of Yet Another Female Body in Springs
The police have to step up their crime-fighting efforts on the East Rand after the remains of a sixth woman were discovered on Tuesday morning in KwaThema, near Springs. The bodies of six women found within a specific area should not be treated as isolated incidents. It warrants an urgent, coordinated and intelligence-driven investigation. The […]
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Fifth Woman’s Remains Deepen Fear in Kempton Park
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) is deeply concerned about the series of female deaths in and around Kempton Park after yet another woman’s remains were recently discovered in Olifantsfontein. Over the last two months or so, five women, presumably murdered, were found in the same area near Kempton Park. All were partially or completely […]
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OnlyFans in South Africa: What Creators Say About Sex Work, Personal Safety and the Gig Economy
While some creators proudly embrace the label of sex worker, many others reject it outright.
Why Tupac Lives on in Cape Town 30 Years After He Was Murdered
Tupac is proof that being young, marginal and Black does not necessarily mean being powerless.
Zambia’s Messy but Decisive Election: Government Shows Strength; Democracy Shows Weakness
How the re-elected government uses its new dominance will influence Zambian politics well beyond this election.
Third North West Speaker in Just Two Years Leads to Instability in Legislature
During today’s special session of the North West Provincial Legislature, the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) abstained from voting to elect a new Speaker. The election was necessitated by Dr Desbo Mohono’s resignation from the office and her subsequent appointment as the new MEC for Education last week. During the session, Ms Viola Motsumi of […]
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How Lagos Pioneers Built a Vibrant Yoruba Print Culture in the 1920s – At the Height of Colonialism
English was imposed as Nigeria’s official language, but the British had no way of controlling what people did with it.
How Can Governments Tackle Poverty When Climate Change, Conflict and Economic Shocks Hit All at Once?
Crises that add up on top of each other have to be addressed in an integrated way.
Women Hold the Key to South Africa’s Future
On this Women’s Day, the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) honours the women of the past and, in particular, the women of the present who are building the future. South African women make up the majority of the country’s population and, therefore, play a key role in shaping its future. The contribution women make to […]
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Zed Beats: How Home Studios Reinvented Zambian Pop Music and Gave Young People a Voice
Zed Beats artists aren’t known for political songs, but they’ve become so popular that they’re used to mobilise voters during elections.