New Frame

The former Banyana coach played a big role in the growth of women’s football in South Africa. Away from the spotlight after leaving the national team, he is still doing what he does best – nurturing future stars.

Today, no longer able to continue as before, New Frame is taking a break from publishing while we consider options for the way forward. Launched on 16 August 2018, on the sixth anniversary of the state massacre of striking miners at Marikana, we noted in our first editorial that we would be working in what Frantz Fanon called a “non-viable society, a society to be replaced”.

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Nokuthula Ndamane’s son, Bonginkosi, both motivates her to beat her drug addiction and is a reflection of how much nyaope has completely taken over her life. The five-year-old lives with Ndamane’s relatives in Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, hundreds of kilometres from where Ndamane lives in Mayfield Ext 5 in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. “I ask myself when he is crying, who is he calling out to? Who is he calling mother?

The Ward Councillor, a drama that is on at the National Arts Festival in Makhanda until 2 July, bears witness to the disturbing occurrence of political assassinations. Over five weeks in January and February, four ward councillors – one from the IFP and three from the ANC – were assassinated. In the run-up to the November 2021 local government elections, eight politically connected people were killed. In 2016 and 2017, 33 politically connected people were murdered in KwaZulu-Natal alone.

American scholar and activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore is one of the most important contemporary thinkers on the key political issues of crime, police power and justice. In her 2007 book Golden Gulag, she demonstrated how the capitalist state responds to problems of rising inequality and unemployment by incarcerating and criminalising impoverished people.

It is now more than 30 years since the passing of the pan-African savant CLR James, who was approaching 90 at his death in 1989. His life story takes us back six generations and distant places to worlds of politics and culture now far from living memory.

Read the translated article in IsiZulu In even the driest weeks of Gauteng’s winter, Musa Nonkwelo, 19, has to sidestep a stream of cloudy, polluted water and avoid a patch of dark muddy ground to reach her home’s front door. Inside, water seeps through the shack’s floor. During the summer months, she says, “it gets worse and worse when there’s heavy rains because the place doesn’t recover from the water”.

In many ways, Denis Odoi defies convention. The relatively short defender is one of the most powerful players in the air. As a student, he was often in trouble with his teachers but would later study towards becoming a teacher while playing top-flight football in Belgium. And even though his teachers never thought that he would turn professional, he went on to play in the most watched league in the world, the English Premier League, and later this year he will represent Ghana in the Fifa World Cup.