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...
What The Skinny Sbu Socks Saga Teaches Us About Small Business
A couple of weeks ago Sibusiso Ngwenya (Skinny Sbu) shared on his social media platform that he had been struggling with depression and that...
When Black People With Nice Things Get Scrutinised
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Being black and middle-class in South Africa means having a strange relationship with money. A relationship that...
The Fight Against Gun Violence In Atlantis, My Community
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When I think of the word “home” I think of safety, but I come from Atlantis, on the...
An Open Letter to the Board of BDS-SA On The Muhammad...
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We as individuals, committed to:
Justice for Palestine;
An indivisible, intersectional approach...
The Butchers Of Marikana Won
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What to make of the fact that the people who set the Marikana massacre in motion now sit...
English Pronunciation Does It Really Matter That Much?
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South Africa is a diverse linguistic community that’s not only influenced by its eleven official languages, but...
Why Apartheid Must Never Be Forgiven
Many of us have not healed from the wounds the legacy of colonialism and apartheid left us, and we're not going to...
Is Blackface Just A White People Thing?
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By LAWRENCE MASHIYANE
After seeing a viral video of Batswana comedian, William Last KRM, a...
Woman As Citizen – (As Forgotten)
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In the wake of gender-based violence, a number of men in the Republic have taken to social media...
Capitalism Realised, Not Idealised
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In an article written for Rapport titled “Our Problem? Too little rather than too much capitalism” Professor Johan...
The DA’s “Law & Order” Policies Won’t Fix The Cape Flats
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Editor's note: on 11 July 2019, the minister of police Bheki Cele announced that President Cyril Ramaphosa had...
There Are No Longer Spaces For Us To Feel Safe
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Do not go out at night, do not walk outside by yourself at night, dress appropriately to avoid...
The DA’s Deluded or Demagogue Approach To Stellenbosch University
By Luke Waltham
The DA’s Federal Congress over the last weekend has resulted in a number of reactions and...
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...
Jumping Through Hoops For White People’s Change
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The Johannesburg northern suburbs seem to be turning into one big circus. Pantsula dancers, jugglers on unicycles and...
Giving White People Honest Feedback About Racism
Noted antiracism practitioner Dr Robin Di Angelo, who coined the term white fragility, talks about how in her workshops she asks people of colour...
Free Speech, A Pillar Of Decolonisation
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In 1988 something bizarre happened in the literary world. The novel, a genre in it’s recline into irrelevance,...
Our Mothers’ Warnings Will Never Be Enough
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Twenty-first birthdays in South Africa, while legally non-significant, often still carry much pomp and ceremony surrounding the idea...
We Are Here Because You Were There
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I really did not want my essay for a writing contest to be about colonialism in 2019. But...
