Apartheid Denialism And Freedom Of Speech
Why is apartheid denialism in South Africa not a crime? More to the point, why is apartheid denialism not even mentioned in the bill...
SADC EPA Implementation: Understanding the Role of Business and Civil Society
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) was signed in June 2016 and has been provisionally implemented since October 2016. Various...
Taking Employment Equity Seriously: Why We Cannot Ignore The DVC Of...
The current University of Cape Town Employment Equity Plan projects that by 2020 the African professor category will increase from 2% to 7% while...
After Women’s Month, Women And Children Are Still Dying
It is the end of Women's Month in South Africa, and for me it still feels like being a woman in South Africa is...
Tweeting For Tickets – Is Global Citizens Rewarding Slacktivism?
"Take action to earn tickets" - that's the tagline of the Global Citizen Mandela 100 Festival. The Motsepe Foundation, and a number of other...
Comrade Trevor Noah, Imran Khan is not Donald Trump
Hey, Trevor. Thanks for thinking of Pakistan. When your book Born a Crime was published, we listened to the audiobook as a family. We...
Germany And South Africa: Humanity’s Tenuous Relationship With Progress
As genocide and concentration camps have entered our lives through what is happening to the Rohingya people and the internment of immigrant children in...
The BRICS 2018 Johannesburg Declaration: Small Wins For Civil Society
On 27 July 2018 leaders of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) grouping released the outcomes of their intense summit negotiations, known as the Johannesburg Declaration....
Obama: An Antithesis Of Mandela’s Values
As South Africans, we are ashamed that the war mongering human rights abuser, Barack Obama has been called upon to honour a man whose...
Scarlett Johansson: From Whitewashing To Straightwashing
After its release in March 2017, Rupert Sanders' American sci-fi action Ghost in the Shell was widely accused of whitewashing due to its casting...
Eat The Rich: The CEO SleepOut Is Capitalism’s Absurdity Laid Bare
The CEO SleepOut is a perfect advertisement for late capitalism in all its crass glory: having bled the sun, the moon, and the earth...
Is South African Hip Hop Finding Its Voice Again?
One of the memorable (or tragic) moments from arguably the most celebrated presidency in Africa, is that of a police commissioner raising his hands...
Julius Malema – Populist, Not Public Intellectual
In the past few months, the educational achievements of many of South Africa's young politicians and activists have been celebrated. But a university degree...
A Luta Continua: Youth Day Is Futile For Young South Africans
The class of 1976 have inspired many uprisings and protests from what many people have termed "born frees". These youngsters have challenged our democracy...
The Stigmas Of Sex Work “To Be Blessed And Slaying”
Over the last three years a new tagline of a type of sex work has populated much of social media under the name of...
Right Of Reply: SACAP Response To Luke Sadler’s Article
On 30 May 2018, The Daily Vox published an opinion piece about a LGBTQIA+ student's experience of the South African College of Applied Psychology's...
The Real Problem With Sexual Assault Scenes In 13 Reasons Why
Controversy has surrounded the popular American teen drama series 13 Reasons Why since the release of season one in March of 2017. At its...
Socio-Political Unrest In Anglophone Region of Cameroon
The colonisation of the Southern Cameroons, or the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, by La Republique du Cameroun, has been long and violent. PATRICK AGEJO...
Solidarity For Workers Unionised By The Willbes Haitian S.A.
The historical legacy of Haitian rebellion in the political imagination of revolutionaries in Africa, the diaspora, and across the world cuts to core of...
Local Psychology College’s Curriculum Perpetuates Transphobia
Most of us are aware of the fact that homosexuality was thought of as immoral and even categorised as a mental illness until some...
