Mam’ Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s Legacy Is Still A Site Of Struggle
South Africa, is a country that is inhibited by ghosts trying to find their homes and it is a country that knows no justice....
The MPL Network: Centering Women’s Experiences of Islamic Law
Debating justice in the Muslim family, a recent workshop organised by the Muslim Personal Law (MPL) Network at the University of Cape Town (UCT)...
Someone needs to explain why there aren’t enough jobs for doctors
Becoming a doctor has many benefits. One of the most attractive to me, though, was the job security I envisioned. No further emphasis is...
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 of fully-fledged adulthood. Symbolic keys “to...
Proudly Celebrate Colonialism And Apartheid Flag At This Cape Town Restaurant
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The Quentin at Oakhurst, a restaurant nestled between the leafy suburbs of Constantia and Hout Bay. Its walls are decorated with memorabilia from colonialism...
What Have Women Benefited In The Past 25 years Of Democracy?
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On May 2, 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa should have signed the national strategic plan against gender based violence in South Africa, writes LEBOHANG...
Food Aid Parcels In South Africa Could Do With A Better...
Hester Vermeulen, University of Pretoria; Carmen Muller, University of Pretoria, and Hettie Carina Schönfeldt, University of Pretoria
Food insecurity is a reality for many South...
Black Capitalism Won’t Save Us Either
On Tuesday, in an interview on Power FM, Johann Rupert the billionaire chairperson of the luxury-goods company Financière Richemont SA turned out to be exactly...
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...
A luta continua at the University Currently Known As Rhodes
On 6 December, the Council of the University Currently Known As Rhodes (UCKAR) publicly announced that it would not be changing the institution's name,...
Muslim women’s narratives belong to no one but them
For a lot of Muslims, living in president Donald Trump's world is a difficult reality to accept. We are constantly reassuring people of our...
A Critique Of The Media Is Not Automatically An Attack On...
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Dreams of Smart Cities, mass retrenchments, young people in cabinet and National Assembly, growth for the Economic Freedom Fighters and the emboldenment of the...
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...
White Liberals Can’t Escape Scrutiny
The attention and political discourse that is emerging as a result of the recent racist outbursts like that of Adam Catzavelos, Vicki Momberg, Penny...
We Must Understand Coloniality If We Are To Dismantle It
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The 1994 vote was not decolonisation. There is still a need to physically decolonise the country and decentre whiteness as the only legitimate form...
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...
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...
More Promises – Has the President finally shown South Africans his...
South Africans will once again be tuned in to listen to President Cyril Ramaphosa deliver the “state of sorrow address” to the nation on...
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...
#FeesMustFall reflections from a Critical Race Feminist
The intersection of race, class and gender form the underlying premise of Critical Race Feminism. It is to point that this reflection will take...
