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PEDRO MZILENI | Local working-class stories must be pulled into the mainstream
The ongoing protests by bus drivers and other workers tied to the IPTS in the Nelson Mandela Bay City government of Gqeberha is the latest instalment in the series of other labour unrests taking place under coalition local governments across SA.
PEDRO MZILENI | Students’ power to share knowledge must be harnessed
When Covid-19 closed classrooms I was worried about the education that students give each other. Official reports tend to emphasise the central role of the teacher in the delivery of the syllabus curriculum. Bad teachers, bad students, bad schools, bad outcomes. Good teachers, good students, good schools, good outcomes.
PEDRO MZILENI | The Pentagon leaks reveal the West's insatiable colonial urge
A 21-year-old American Air National Guard member, Jack Teixeira, has been arrested and charged for leaking highly classified documents of the US Defence Force concerning the war in Ukraine.
PEDRO MZILENI | Political parties out of touch with how people experience the energy crisis
As we seek solutions, political parties must be mindful that people’s patience is running thin. They risk being left behind when the people begin to realise that all power is actually in their hands.
PEDRO MZILENI | Pledge of free higher education has proved to be nothing but a lie
First, education is not free in SA. Second, government is disengaging from being a central role player on the major issues of human development. It has left everything in the hands of the market and the project of growing a developmental state is now long forgotten.
PEDRO MZILENI | SA Tourism needs a CEO who is clued up on the sector
The thesis of “tourism attraction” has always been used on developing countries as a strategy by Western countries to maintain neo-colonial relations by sucking out the little funds they have left.
PEDRO MZILENI | ANC conferences tools to rearrange queue for plunder of state resources
The ANC has again mastered the art of talking left and walking right.
PEDRO MZILENI | SA urgently needs something else to get it out of this crisis
The input by former president Thabo Mbeki at Jessie Duarte’s memorial service was timely. We are in a crisis that is being deepened by a misplaced leadership strategy and a policy regime that is decontextualised from our most pressing challenges in SA.
PEDRO MZILENI | We the people must be active participants in our own future
The legitimacy the government had at the beginning of Cyril Ramaphosa’s term is now slowly fading away. The leadership of the president does not seem to be solving our major challenges as quickly as it should, and according to our expectations.
Tavern tragedy highlights the serious economic flaws in SA
The impact of poverty and its potential to disempower gets underestimated when we have academic conversations about such tragedies and where they occur.























