Fierce, intense, principled: Equal Education would not have been possible without her
By Doron Isaacs
Obituary | 24 October 2022
A story for his 90th birthday
By Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 14 November 2017
Shunned by the British Empire, for Seretse and Ruth Khama the personal was political
By Doron Isaacs
Analysis | 30 September 2016
During Thomas Pikettyâs 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
Equal Educationâs 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
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
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
In 2010 there were 3228 matrics in Khayelitshaâs 19 high schools. They achieved just 44 âAâ symbols between them, in all subjects.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 4 September 2014
In his 2004 Nelson Mandela lecture Desmond Tutu bravely suggested that an âuncritical, sycophantic, obsequious conformityâ constituted a threat to democracy in South Africa. He said that âtoo many are foolhardy and opt for silence to become voting cattle for the party.â
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 12 December 2013
South Africa came very close to civil war in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but instead of a bloodbath there was the negotiated settlement, also known as the âmiracleâ. In fact parts of the country were in a state of civil war, and the miracle is that it didnât engulf the country.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 9 December 2013
Helen Zille may seem like an unlikely advocate for Angie Motshekga, but she is not. The two have come to each otherâs aid on more than one occasion.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 23 July 2013
I have examined myself and cannot find an anti-American bone. I donât feel conflicted at the fact that I prefer hamburgers to kneidlach soup or cholent or pap.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 1 July 2013
This was originally published as a letter in the Cape Times on 14 June 2013.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 14 June 2013
âJoin our hands to fight the drug companies, join our hands to raise money from the private sector, join our hands in raising money from each of us who will contribute to save lives of everyone who needs to be saved.â With these words Zackie Achmat launched the Treatment Action Campaign in 1998.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 29 May 2013
On Friday Judge Phalatsi ordered that 13-year old Lerato Radebe be immediately readmitted to her school in Welkom. Every morning since 26 February Lerato was removed from her classroom and marched to the staff-room where she was made to spend the school day sitting idly. This was done because Lerato, whose family is Rastafarian, wears dreadlocks in her hair.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 20 May 2013
This is an edited version of remarks made by Doron Isaacs at an event hosted by the UCT Palestine Solidarity Forum for Israel Apartheid Week 2013. The other panelists, who spoke prior to Isaacs, were Professor Andrew Nash and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 15 March 2013