Why Iran Matters to Africa
What do the human rights of minorities in Iran, in the Middle East, have to do with Africans, writes MAZIAR BAHARI.
I started to answer...
On Cheryl Zondi, and how the justice system fails survivors
On Monday the trial of Nigerian Pastor Timothy Omotoso began in the Eastern Cape High Court in Port Elizabeth. First witness, 22-year-old Cheryl Zondi,...
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...
The Role Of Families In Preventing Violence In Schools
On the 17th of September 2018, the minister of basic education, Angie Motshekga, called on law enforcement agencies to help quell the recent spate...
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...
Bunny Chows And Guptas: The Heritage Of South African Indians
The bunny chow: a dish ingrained in the fabric of South African culture. So much so that its successor, the kota, has been credited...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
