Date My Family And Male Chauvinism On TV
Mzansi TV shows continue to tell a sad story of entrenched patriarchy. The reality show Date My Family's latest episode left social media aghast,...
Only A 1976 Situation Can Change The Lives Of SA Youth
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This year marks the 43rd anniversary of the June 1976 massacre, and it has become apparent that the livelihoods of young people in this...
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....
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...
Calling myself “Coloured” gives me the ability to choose new meanings...
Chris Beilings believes persisting with the term “Coloured” is an act of defiance in itself.
The past few months have seen a high volume of...
Marievale Community Awaits Court Ruling Against Forced Evictions By SANDF
On Thursday, 3 May, members of a Marievale community, a community of approximately 600 people (150 families), approached the Pretoria High Court seeking...
SA: Call For Young Women To Mobilise On Freedom Day
When we gather in elitist spaces as social justice activists in the fight against patriarchy and gender based violence, capitalism and race, with the...
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...
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...
What the Malema ‘nutcracker moment’ at SONA says about sexual violence...
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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,...
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...
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...
A Tale Of Two Koreas
It has been hailed as "a new milestone", "a historic occasion" and a "roadmap to peace". But this is not the first political salvo...
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”...
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...
Why Abantu Book Fest Needs To Reconsider Its White People Stance
The Abantu Book Festival took place for the third year in a row this past weekend, and more people than ever attended. The festival...
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...
Marxist Scholar Harold Wolpe’s Ideas Still Speak To South Africa’s Problems
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During the apartheid period in South Africa – 1948 to 1994 – a lively intellectual culture of opposition emerged on some of the country’s...
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...
