WHILE people were asleep, entertaining themselves, possibly with recreational substances, or discussing amendments to the National Drug Master Plan, which could deschedule marijuana, (in effect remove cannabis from the arena of drug prohibition and criminal justice, into the realm of harm reducti...

This is a guest post by Jane Duncan who is a member the Right 2 Know Campaign, a South African campaigns group that is a member of the Privacy International Network. On 23rd March the United Nations Human Rights Committee released its assessment on South Africa’s compliance with the International...

IT'S BEEN 15 years since I started advocating harm reduction. In the face of strong opposition, South Africa's Deputy Minister of Social Development, Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu has made one of the most progressive statements heard on drug policy, at the plenary session of the '59th Commission on Na...

ONE has got to feel a little sorry for our second President, Thabo Mbeki. Having nursed the country through a transition to democracy, (he was essentially the man who ran the show during the Mandela administration), and having authored the African Renaissance, Mbeki literally ended up on the poli...

TOKENISTIC, OBJECTIFYING, VOYEURISTIC INCLUSION IS AT LEAST AS DISEMPOWERING AS COMPLETE EXCLUSION’ It was as early as April 2015, just a month after the inception of RMF, that what is now known as the Trans Collective flagged the issue of a rigid loyalty to patriarchy, cisnormativity, heteronorm...

IF THE idea of a sudden influx of cheap chicken wings from the USA wasn't enough to disturb South Africans, who up until now hadn't given much thought to how our local chickens fare, then I guess the threat of arsenic in imported US chicken marks a turning point in environmentalism. The FDA admit...