Students Are Not “Committing Suicide”, Universities Are Killing Us
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I first went into a psychiatric ward when I was eighteen. I struggled with serious depression and had attempted suicide. At that age I...
What is in a word – ableism
What is in a word, ableism, that is what. Yes, I can imagine the able bodied are busy trying to “get back to normal”...
UKZN Is Still A Colonial Institution
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Last month, the Witness published a story of one Mr Vincent Luxolo Mtyende, a lecturer at the University of KwaZulu Natal, who according to...
Want To Enter Into A Muslim Marriage In SA? Here Are...
Arising out of the discussions at a recent workshop organised by the Muslim Personal Law (MPL) Network, it was clear that Muslims in South...
A very serious, not-a-joke letter to Eskom
Dear Eskom,
I understand that we are a nation with a power crisis right now and that it is somewhat beyond your current control -...
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...
The Death Penalty Is Not The Solution To Violence Against Women
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The horrific death of 19-year old UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana, is for many South Africans the cruel combination of unsurprising and heart-breaking. It is...
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 by a multitude of international languages...
Corona on the other side of wealth
Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu or “I am because you are” is how we describe the meaning of Ubuntu. It speaks to the phenomena that we...
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...
“Under Capitalism, No Black Person Ever Dies By ‘Natural Causes’”
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Whether we are aware of it or not, we see Black people as living synonymous with labour, especially through a white gaze in this...
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 to justice;
Victim-centered approaches to gender-based violence (GBV), and
The creation of egalitarian societies;
categorically reject the...
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 question of whether black people or people of colour can...
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...
I don’t have exes
A personal essay by Thembelihle Ngcai
I’m the only disabled person in my family. I was one of the very few visibly disabled people...
Stop Letting Capitalism Convince You To Overwork
Recently Buzzfeed News published an article about "Millennial Burnout" - the condition seeming to affect people born between the years 1980 and 2000. It...
The Place Of Sara Baartman At UCT
The label “Hottentot Venus†continues to haunt our memory of Sara Baartman. This moniker, used in Jean Reaux’s posters to advertise the exhibit of...
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 in South Africa’s halls of power?...
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 outskirts of Cape Town. The place...
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 forgive anyone...
