Women’s status in South Africa: a reality check
So South Africa has all these laws and regulations that are meant to further women's rights and protect them, right? Well, what happens in theory...
Yumna Moosa’s superiors are still trying to prove her as incompetent
Dr Yumna Moosa, whose video about harassment and racism at a public hospital went viral last week said the support she’s received since publishing...
This junior doctor is exposing harassment and racism in our hospitals
Yumna Moosa, a graduate of the University of Cape Town, was working as an intern to earn her qualification as a medical doctor when she experienced...
“Unveiled” play attempts to combat xenophobia and foster understanding
Originally written and produced by Chicago-based writer, Rohina Malik, the play, Unveiled opened at the Wits Theatre on Friday 15 July as a part...
Arundhati Roy on writing, fighting and… anti-blackness?
On 1 July, ELLE India featured the extraordinary author Arundhati Roy as the cover woman of the magazine’s July issue, in which she was...
We need to speak about how badly sportswomen are paid
Women already have to deal with misogyny and discrimination in all sectors of society solely by virtue, well, of them being women. And for...
So, what’s the best way to teach children about the history...
A private school in Johannesburg has clarified accusations that it had forced black students to carry a dompas as part of a school project.
Nandi...
Pippa Tshabalala on #ICON2016 and sexism in the gaming industry
With "South Africa's longest running comics and games convention", #ICON2016 starting on Friday, we caught up with one of gaming’s most well-known faces - PIPPA...
Prof. Achille Mbembe on racism in South Africa in 2016 is...
Speaking on Tuesday at a seminar hosted by the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism, and supported by the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation and the...
Muslim and ZCC students forced to remove religious head coverings at...
In light of the #RespekTheDoek campaign, reports of two incidents of students being asked to remove their head coverings have emerged at the NWU...
Niq Mhlongo’s Affluenza embraces South Africans’ lived experiences
South Africa's democracy has come a long way since its formative years. But twenty years on and there are still many issues which have...
What are the transformation targets of SA sports?
Another year and the same battle continues. Transformation. Some think it's a waste of time, others think it's "reverse racism". Others still, like Afriforum...
UWC students respond to Prof Xolela Mangcu
Self-indulgent Professor Xolela Mangcu misread our protest, write Nangamso Bomvana, Ncedisa Mpemnyama and Marx Mtoto.
On Thursday the 26th of May, the Centre for Humanities...
The final word on #TipGate and the bullied white waitress by...
The official statement.Â
Over the past three weeks, there has been a national and international uproar about what has now come to be known as...
5 more racist ads that will make you go WTF
People are freaking out over a Chinese laundry detergent ad – and rightfully so, because it's kind of explicitly racist. But, sadly, it's not...
Decolonisation must begin at schools
I am a student at the university currently known as Rhodes. Our struggle for decolonisation remains urgent, and unfulfilled. Meanwhile, the struggle for decolonisation...
Silence is another language white people must learn
KIM HELLER feels that the defence of racist discourse as freedom of speech exposes the oppression of whiteness.
Zapiro’s spew of racist cartoons, which is...
This Is Why You Should Never Compare Black People To Monkeys
On Tuesday, The Times published a cartoon by Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro, which depicted the NPA's Shaun Abrahams as a monkey doing...
Should racists be sent to jail?
This week has been a rough one for the “rainbow nationâ€. First, Mabel Jansen’s Facebook remarks had the country outraged, and then Florence Masebe spoke...
Ntokozo Qwabe on disrupting whiteness and black people’s attachment to whiteness
NTOKOZO QWABE, who rose to global fame through leading the Oxford campus Rhodes Must Fall campaign does not hold back in firing bullets at...
