Articles for Doron Isaacs
Remembering Yoliswa Dwane
Fierce, intense, principled: Equal Education would not have been possible without her
By Doron Isaacs
Obituary | 24 October 2022
How two teachers helped George Bizos become a lawyer
A story for his 90th birthday
By Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 14 November 2017
Pula! Botswana at 50: love, race and duty in the struggle for freedom
Shunned by the British Empire, for Seretse and Ruth Khama the personal was political
By Doron Isaacs
Analysis | 30 September 2016
Piketty’s radical vision for education
During Thomas Piketty’s Nelson Mandela lecture a friend tweeted that, despite the standing ovation, many would choose what to remember. They would parrot his call for investment in education because that was unthreatening. Forget land redistribution, a wealth tax and the national minimum wage, just get the kids in school!
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 6 October 2015
Right to protest is under sustained attack
Equal Education’s recently concluded sleep-in protests in three cities have shown how disturbingly difficult it has become to hold legal protests, even for organisations fortunate enough to have access to resources and legal expertise.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 10 April 2015
Love is Blind: The youth wage subsidy and the South African media
Some media houses are cheerleading for the youth wage subsidy, despite the available evidence strongly suggesting that it is already a R2bn waste of public money.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 19 February 2015
Curro schools and segregation: back to the future
Today, Equal Education is protesting outside the Public Investment Corporation because it is an investor in the Curro private school chain. DORON ISAACS, Equal Education's Deputy General Secretary, explains his organisation's concerns with Curro.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 10 February 2015
Education as an elixir for freedom
In 2010 there were 3228 matrics in Khayelitsha’s 19 high schools. They achieved just 44 ‘A’ symbols between them, in all subjects.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 4 September 2014
If the boo fits …
In his 2004 Nelson Mandela lecture Desmond Tutu bravely suggested that an “uncritical, sycophantic, obsequious conformity” constituted a threat to democracy in South Africa. He said that “too many are foolhardy and opt for silence to become voting cattle for the party.”
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 12 December 2013