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MARK GEVISSER: The wrong walk to freedom?
In the SA Communist Party’s centenary month, three radical thinkers identify ‘the new apartheid’, but disagree about what should be done about it
MARK GEVISSER: Ghosts, old wounds, and psychic traumas
If we are not going to be haunted by the violence of our past, we are going to need to talk about it
MARK GEVISSER: Shame and envy on Wahbie Long’s couch
The UCT psychologist analyses the “monsters of the deep” in our country’s "political unconscious”
MARK GEVISSER: Furniture for the apocalypse
Jackson Hlungwani’s prophetic vision urges us to think, anew, about ecological disaster
MARK GEVISSER: If we are essentially ‘good’, how do we act accordingly?
Coronavirus has sharpened our need to be our best selves, but what does this mean outside of volunteering at a soup kitchen?
MARK GEVISSER: Life on the pink line
Mark Gevisser looks at the unique challenges faced by people who live on a human rights frontier that stretches across the globe
MARK GEVISSER: Your smartphone — carrying around a potential secret agent in your very pockets
The risks of opening our private lives to digital surveillance and scrutiny in the name of public health are now a stark reality
MARK GEVISSER: Covid 19 crisis puts our egos in check
No matter how much humanity progresses, nature will always find a way to strike back
MARK GEVISSER: Was apartheid the ultimate 'lockdown'?
Historians show that in the past SA always took advantage of health crises to further segregate and impoverish ‘others’
MARK GEVISSER: From apartheid, Aids and now the climate crisis: how do we change SA’s tradition of denial?
Fossil fuel divestment is snowballing globally but our country is still not yet part of this momentum
