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Giving White People Honest Feedback About Racism
Noted antiracism practitioner Dr Robin Di Angelo, who coined the term white fragility, talks about how in her workshops she asks people of colour “how often to do we give white people real, honest feedback about the ways in which they are…
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 this question when I made my film The Cost of Discrimination in 2017. The film follows the life of an…
Meeting The Challenge Of Social Cohesion
On Thursday, the Development Democracy Program held its first International Social Cohesion in Durban, aimed at elevating and deliberating conversations about social cohesion above race, and unearth other causes of divisions in the society.…
White Liberals Can’t Escape Scrutiny
The attention and political discourse that is emerging as a result of the recent racist outbursts like that of Adam Catzavelos, Vicki Momberg, Penny Sparrow etc are cheapening the conversation about racism, writes THABISO BHENGU.…
Class, Patriarchy And Racism In the SRC Elections At Tuks
The elections at the University of Pretoria have come and left in the year 2018.I must say the burden that they carried sometimes lead to sleepless nights filled with anxiety and contemplating the number of people that would actually…
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 coming up in parliament on Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech, writes AYESHA FAKIE. …
#NWURacism Students Protest Language Policy
On Friday September 7, students from the University of the North West Potchefstroom campus embarked on a strike. They handed over a joint Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command and South African Student Congress memorandum. The students…
Germany And South Africa: Humanity’s Tenuous Relationship With Progress
As genocide and concentration camps have entered our lives through what is happening to the Rohingya people and the internment of immigrant children in Trump’s America, I have reflected even more on humanity’s tenuous relationship with…
Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire Gives A Nuanced View Into The State’s Response To The Enemy Within
The current political climate is such that anti-immigration and Islamophobic right-wing policies are fast gaining traction. From this climate emerges Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, a gripping book that tells of a British family entwined with…
What Zayn Malik Meant To Us As Brown Directioners
It was March 25, 2015 when Zayn Malik left boy band One Direction. He broke Directioners hearts all over the world, but his brown fans were especially devastated. You see, Zayn Malik was a miracle for representation: he was brown, half…
Our Fav ‘Players Tribune’ Pieces This World Cup
We’ve seen their triumphs, their losses and their celebrations. But do we really know anything about the person behind the footballing legend? An American site better known for its baseball coverage, The Players Tribune has been…
In Defence Of Safe Spaces
Safe spaces are often mocked and misunderstood. Those who are excluded from certain safe spaces feel discriminated against or feel that it is a threat to democracy. Perhaps the problem lies with not understanding what a safe space and its…
‘The Hate U Give’ Trailer Has Dropped!
On June 25, the movie trailer for The Hate U Give or T.H.U.G book by Angie Thomas dropped at the BET Awards. The movie adaptation will be coming on October 19 in the US. The date when it will be revealed in South Africa is not yet…
A POC Supper At UCT’s Decolonial School Is Causing White Tears
An objection to a People Of Colour (POC)-only space at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Winter Decolonial School is shifting the attention from the objection of the school to white fragility, organisers of the school said.
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Stop Telling Black People How To React To Racism
On Tuesday, Supersport released a report on the now-infamous Ashwin Willemse walkout and racism accusations at the television studios. In May, Willemse walked off the set of the station accusing Nick Mallett and Naas Botha of patronising…
European Governments Play Politics With Refugee Lives
On June 10, Matteo Salvini, Italy's new far-right interior minister, said he would not allow the MV Aquarius to dock on the Italian coast. The MV Aquarius is a rescue ship that has been operating in the Mediterranean Sea run by humanitarian…
Julius Malema – Populist, Not Public Intellectual
In the past few months, the educational achievements of many of South Africa’s young politicians and activists have been celebrated. But a university degree does not necessarily suggest knowledge. The westernised South African university…
Bloodbath In Gaza: “The only thing that makes Israelis stronger than us is their weaponsâ€
In the wake of the surge in violence in Gaza when protests turned deadly on 14 May, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) shares the human face and impact of the ‘bloodbath’ through testimonies of MSF patients and staff. These testimonies…
On The Symbolism Of Being The First Black SA Woman To Hold PhD in Philosophy
Meet Dr Mpho Tshivhase, the first black South African woman to be awarded a PhD in philosophy. As a young, black woman in a field that is generally dominated by white men, this is a feat to be celebrated. She graduated from the University…
Johan Pienaar: AfriForum Has Captured Afrikaner Identity
Often described as a civil rights organisation, South African non-profit organisation (NPO) AfriForum describes its mission as “to ensure that the basic conditions for the survival of Afrikaners are met by being a credible Afrikaner…