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...
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...
When racism, Islamophobia and #BringBackOurGirls collide
What happens when racism, Islamophobia, and #BringBackOurGirls collide in a single advertisement for charity? More to the point, how does that even happen? RA'EESA PATHER explains.
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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...
Tweeting For Tickets – Is Global Citizens Rewarding Slacktivism?
"Take action to earn tickets" - that's the tagline of the Global Citizen Mandela 100 Festival. The Motsepe Foundation, and a number of other...
#ChristChurch: To hate or not to hate?
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#ChristChurch. Fifty congregants murdered. Dozens wounded. The martyrs are Muslim worshippers and the murderer is an Australian born, white supremacist terrorist. The notion of...
Ripples from San Juan: Fighting against austerity and modern-day colonialism
As word of an indefinite strike at the University of Puerto Rico over austerity plans breaks international media headlines, one cannot help but read...
A love letter to Faki Moshoeu
Wanelisa Xaba imagines what life in a deeply divided South Africa would have been like for 16-year-old Matlhomola "Faki: Moshoeu, had he not lost...
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...
A response to Mamdani: the fight to decolonise starts with the...
Auwais Rafudeen reflects on the importance of indigenous languages in the decolonial project, and the internalised Western ideologies that hold back the attempts to...
Caught in the Spider’s Web: Radical Economic Transformation and Authoritarian Populism
The emergence of the campaign and associated political rhetoric under the banner of “Radical Economic Transformation†(RET) devolved from the Zuma administration. Over the...
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...
South Africa’s #MeToo gap: No accountability for high-profile men
The #MeToo movement began on our timelines - then became tangible as scores of high-profile American men are being ousted and fired for their...
Running South Africa like the AU might not be a good...
ANC presidential hopeful Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma recently said that if she became president of South Africa, she could do for South Africa what she did...
Danish minister says giving Africans birth control will limit migration to...
It wasn’t enough that French President Macron believes Africa is a country, now a Danish minister believes contraceptives are the cure for Africa’s migration...
Dear deputy president, we are not shields in your political battles
In a letter to deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa, Gaopalelwe Phalaetsile reflects on the ways in which *womxn end up as collateral damage when men...
So Starbucks in SA is a sip of the first world?...
Ahead of the Thursday opening of Starbucks in South Africa, Wayne Parnell attended the by-invitation-only launch of the international coffee chain in Rosebank. The...
‘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.
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It’s time for a “Me Too” campaign for men
Tsipi Erann says she wants to see a "me too" campaign by men.
"Me too - I pressured a woman into sex when she first...
Joey Rasdien: blasphemy, bigotry and the other b-word
In light of the furore around Joey Rasdien's controversial comments about Islam, and the reactions to them, Angelo C Louw reflects on the racism...
