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Class, Patriarchy And Racism In the SRC Elections At Tuks
The elections at the University of Pretoria have come and left in the year 2018.I must say the burden that they carried sometimes lead to sleepless nights filled with anxiety and contemplating the number of people that would actually…
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 coming up in parliament on Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech, writes AYESHA FAKIE. …
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 stakeholders are making efforts to ensure that the agreement…
Taking Employment Equity Seriously: Why We Cannot Ignore The DVC Of Teaching And Learning Case At…
The current University of Cape Town Employment Equity Plan projects that by 2020 the African professor category will increase from 2% to 7% while only 16% of professionally qualified middle management will be African. White professors will…
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 moving from LOVE to DEATH, writes TSAMME MMAMMONE WA KA MFUNDISI. It’s been 13 years since I experienced a brutal killing in my…
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 fell in love with your voice and trenchant critique of the racist structures and culture that ravage…
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 Trump’s America, I have reflected even more on humanity’s tenuous relationship with…
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. In marked departure from previous summits, the…
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 struggles have contributed to allowing us to live freely in South Africa today, write AAYESHA J SONI and…
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 of white actress Scarlett Johansson for the role of Japanese character and leading lady Major…
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 dry for resources, having sat atop a global pyramid of upward wealth extraction, the One Percent now deigns…
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 in a room packed with journalists to demonstrate his innocence, writes GOPOLANG…
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 and have exposed the flaws in our education system, institutional racism, systemic…
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 Blesser Lifestyle. In what has been glamourised on social media platforms, mostly on Instagram with women posting pictures 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 (SACAP) curriculum on transgenderism and non-binary identities. DR ASHLEY SMYTH responds to…
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 narrative’s center is Hannah Baker, a high school student who commits suicide and leaves behind six…
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 AGHE and PATRICK AYUK write about the current state of unrest in their homeland and the…
Solidarity For Workers Unionised By The Willbes Haïtian 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 the meaning emancipation. But also what it means to deal with the harshest realities 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 point in the 1900s, but it may come as a surprise that a well-known and respected college in South Africa is…
Decolonising Education, Globalisation, And Forms Of Citizenship
The decolonisation debate that has captured the lecture halls at some of our universities raises once again some fundamental questions about how we interpret our history, who has authority on these acts of interpretation, and what…