Hey Renaldo, a selfie is a selfie, not an invitation
On Wednesday, the DA’s proportional representation councillor for Nelson Mandela Bay Renaldo Gouws posted a Facebook status calling out women who post “sexually suggestive...
Meena Kandasamy’s novel is literary salvation for women abuse survivors
Meena Kandasamy’s latest novel When I Hit You is a wrenching story that straddles the line between fiction and nonfiction. Two reporters, Mishka Wazar...
The Other Universals Project: exploring the body as a source of...
The Other Universals Project aims to bring together scholars from all over the world to interrogate the question of oppression and discrimination by focusing on the views...
‘We need to act against white privilege and the systems that...
In a press statement, Dean Hutton addresses their recent #FuckWhitePeople court victory and reminds white South Africans that belonging is earned, not stolen.
I’d like...
Listening to the voices of the oppressed: lessons from India and...
The Other Universals Project aims to bring together scholars from all over the world to interrogate the question of oppression and discrimination by focusing on...
Equality Court rules that #FuckWhitePeople isn’t hate speech, slams white privilege
On 4 July 2017, the Judge Thulare of the Equality Court in Cape Town handed down judgment in a case filed by the Cape...
Those who are against decolonisation are white supremacists
We are living in a society that is deeply divided on racial issues, decolonisation being one of them. The reality of the decolonisation debate,...
Do our churches and pastors need ethical oversight?
First it was eating grass and drinking petrol, then spraying congregants with Doom insecticide. Now, in an effort to clamp down on unethical religious...
What does the Kiribilly judgment tell us about unlawful evictions and...
Evictions are commonplace in South Africa, due in part to extreme economic inequality and historic land dispossession. The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa's...
To tweet or not to tweet: #SocialMediaBlackout
Despite last year's #DataMustFall campaign, little has been done to lower the costs. Now, folk on Twitter are calling for a social media blackout: a...
We are the children of liberation, the (un)free generation.
Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute's Vuyokazi Futshane reflects on the burdens on the (un)free generation in post-apartheid South Africa. In the wake of Youth...
Racism at PMB Girls’ High goes further than the k-word
Alice Draper, who matriculated from Pietermaritzburg Girls' High School in 2015, reflects on the institutional racism at the school. She says that, despite regular...
Statistics surrounding South Africa’s farm murder rate are more political than...
A recent analysis by Africa Check, an organisation that promotes accuracy in media reporting, has called into question the accuracy of commonly cited farm...
For Jacob Zuma to go, Cyril Ramaphosa must win
Political analyst Ebrahim Fakir believes that, for President Jacob Zuma to go before the end of his term as head of state in 2019,...
Dear Mmusi, getting kicked out of Zambia does not make you...
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane was refused entry into Zambia last week and came across as a hero for trying to support issues...
The pursuit of justice in Coligny is not just black and...
Five fallists unpack the pre-existing conditions and environmental factors that led to the death of 16-year-old Matlhomola Moshoeu, and the treatment of the farmworkers...
Sorry, Jeff Radebe, your apology is not enough
South African leaders have been getting away with their abuse of women for years. This time, it’s the turn of Minister in the Presidency,...
Can we really decolonise Africa?
Suntosh R Pillay wonders whether conversations and dialogue events can really create social change.
When something is wrong, our impulse is to talk about it....
When we cannot trust our own fathers, which men can we...
I remember wondering if I could still wear my short night dress or my short pyjama pants. I had never felt like that in...
