It’s 2020 and Bantu Steve Biko is more relevant than ever
September 12 marks 43 years since the death of Bantu Stephen Biko. His murder robbed us of one of our greatest minds. But his...
#BlackLivesMatter: 10 Books By POC/Black Writers On Race
The wave of anger in reaction to the murder of George Floyd that sparked a new wave of #BlackLivesMatter protests in the United States...
Racist Polish fans advocate for “freedom” for Chris Hani’s murderer
The return of live sporting events in Poland has seen a return of racist sloganing centered around the murderer of Chris Hani, Janusz Walus.
The...
We Must Understand Coloniality If We Are To Dismantle It
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The 1994 vote was not decolonisation. There is still a need to physically decolonise the country and decentre whiteness as the only legitimate form...
Commemorating 29 years since the assassination of Chris Hani
April 10 2022 marks 29 years since the assassination of Chris Hani. On April 10 1993, Thembisile Chris Hani was shot and killed in Dawn...
Jwara! Induna’s Daughter: An extract
Born into privilege, Joyce PilisoSeroke questioned her environment. She grew up in a gated compound for the mining elite at Crown Mines but soon...
A love letter to Black matriculants
I'm not sure what I want to say to you and how I want to say it. All I know is, at this very...
KhoiKhoi is the mother of all mother tongues says Jeffrey Oarasib
Jeffrey Oarasib has been elevating the preservation of the KhoiKhoi language through poetry, and rapping. He is a Khoi language reclamation artist and activist....
The decolonisation manifesto: Part 1 – how to stop reproducing white...
In the first of a series on decolonisation as a personal journey, Wanelisa Xaba says it is time for Black activists to interrogate the...
Human Rights and the path to equivalence
It’s been 75 years now since the United Nations assembly adopted the concept of human rights as a universal declaration. What was drafted in...
A soulful reflection of the past at #KBF22
In Mandla Langa’s The Lost Language of the Soul, the author weaves a powerful story. It is a story about a search but it...
The decolonisation manifesto: Part 2 – Colonisation and the colonial subject
In the second part of a three-part series on decolonisation, Wanelisa Xaba says that in defiance of colonialism and white imagination, we must resist...
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...
