As A Person With A Disability, Send Me, Mr President.
After I received a notification that President Cyril Ramaphosa would be giving an address about disability rights I logged on to watch with interest,...
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 thoughts by voters, critics and commentators...
2017: A decisive year for #FeesMustFall
In 2017, the #FeesMustFall uprising is likely to face its most decisive moments yet, with mass protests periodically grinding South African universities across 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...
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...
South Africa: Our Morally Unconscionable State the Needs Systemic Political Reform
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South Africa, unlike most countries that fail, has not fallen prey to any nefarious outside interference or simply succumbed to the incompetence of our...
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...
“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...
Jihad of the Girl Child
Since 2012, 11 October has been marked by the United Nations as the International Day of the Girl Child. The day aims to highlight...
Equal Education and Doron Isaacs: Setting The Record Straight
As former employees of Equal Education (EE), who recently left our positions, we have been deeply troubled by the release of former High Court...
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...
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”...
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...
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...
English Pronunciation Does It Really Matter That Much?
COMMENT
South Africa is a diverse linguistic community that’s not only influenced by its eleven official languages, but by a multitude of international languages...
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 approved the deployment of the South...
Government Must Force Universities To Transform
It's been 22 years since the passing of Higher Education Act, Act 101 of 1997 and Education White Paper 3: A Programme for the...
Muslim women’s bodies are not spaces to fight people’s bigotry
Living in Johannesburg, I usually get to go to the beach once a year. When I swim in a public place I wear full-length...
The power of humour in South Africa
South Africans joke about everything. Happy, sad, serious, definitely not a joking matter - nothing is off limits. During the pandemic, the July Unrest...
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...
