New Frame
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A not-for-profit, social justice media publication, dedicated to a pro-poor, pro-working class focus | We chase quality, not clicks.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined August 2018
EDITORIAL | After close to four years of intense work we must now reimagine how journalism can and should be done in a moment when the coils of social and political crisis squeeze ever more tightly. #NewFrame #NewFrameShutDown #Left #Workers #Justice
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English singer & #activist @billybragg tells @JCharlesLeonard he is encouraged that American workers at @SBWorkersUnited&@Amazonlabor are organising themselves.“People are remembering that #collectivebargaining is a fundamental right.” #Workersrights
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The low-grade form of heroin continues to strip the youth of their future and the young women living in a drug house in #Ekurhuleni say the police do not take them seriously, writes @Nationinha. #DrugAbuse #Nyaope #Youth
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“The collective experience of the #pandemic has reminded people what will happen if we all work together … I think it’s going to play into the resurgence of #tradeunion membership,” singer .@billybragg tells @JCharlesLeonard of @NewFrame_News. https://t.co/2hWTDfnQrG
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LONG READ | In this extract from her recent lecture at the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation, Helena Chávez Mac Gregor reckons with the memory and place of #FridaKahlo in our contemporary imagination. https://t.co/aTnaZQU9ne
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RECAP | As a society, we are uncomfortable with #death. But hidden in grief and tragedy is potential transcendence, if we allow ourselves to contemplate our own inevitable demise. #SharpRead #Grief #Death
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RECAP | “I teach on my own, with no supervision. Right now, I’m marking tests for my three classes,” says Jacobs, an education assistant from a primary school in rural Tsomo, 60km inland from Butterworth. #Education #Teachers
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Daring to question the botched relocation of shack dwellers from one settlement to another has brought Abahlali members to the attention of hitmen and the metro police, writes Maru Attwood. #ShackDwellers #Settlements
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A good work ethic saw the Belgian-Ghanaian defender go further in his #football career than expected. Now he has the chance to play for Ghana in the World Cup in Qatar. #Sport #Africa
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The artist’s third album traverses a new musical terrain as he keeps on expanding his sound and working with friends from around the world. #Music #NewAlbum #NewMaterial
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John L Williams’ new book on the pan-African thinker is a marvel that offers a close, meticulous description of his life and thinking, untangling his transformations and inviting reacquaintance. #Revolutionary #Leftist
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First piece for the @artsfestival. Looking at the importance and impact of artist residencies, featuring new work by Spaza curated by @MushroomHour and a performative walking project by @orangcosong , a duo from Japan. Read via @NewFrame_News
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RECAP | The Johannesburg high court has ruled that the City of Johannesburg charging convenors a levy to provide traffic control and policing during demonstrations violates the right to protest | @CabeMusa. https://t.co/TTVHMqAO9W
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Today's @NewFrame_News cartoon. The end of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit leaves tens of thousands of Zimbabweans, many highly skilled, without a route to regularisation and at risk of deportation despite having built lives & families in South Africa for the last 14 years
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South Africa • Facing the beast of rape, femicide and child murder https://t.co/X3PRc3tV86 [@NewFrame_news]
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Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary spirit lives on https://t.co/CiQjNJoi4f via @NewFrame_News
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Right to protest "is an outlet through which citizens can occupy public spaces to voice discontent and have their voices heard. The right enables participatory democracy, so to trammel on the right is to manipulate the path of democracy" https://t.co/QZarZoIsG0 via @NewFrame_News
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Dancers from the small academy in Etwatwa are winning locally and qualifying internationally, but will never compete overseas unless the institutions meant to support such initiatives actually do so. #Art #Dancers
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A new collection of essays uses the works of the psychiatrist and radical political philosopher to explore how a community’s language and capacity for thought and wit threaten the state. #Writer #FrantzFanon
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NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL | Two collectives, Spaza and orangcosong, took up residencies at the #NationalArtsFestival and created projects that speak to the town and the spaces they found themselves in, writes @Atzushka. #Art #Music #Festival
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