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...
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...
Making excuses for racism: “This is how Whiteness operates”
The furore over allegations of racism at the 12 Apostles' Azure restaurant is beginning to calm down, but in its wake, some South Africans...
If HIV denialists have not been pardoned, why should the DA...
Aids has taught South Africans why denialism can't be tolerated – whether it comes from Thabo Mbeki or Helen Zille.
In the same week that...
Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire Gives A Nuanced View Into The State’s...
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,...
The President’s Keepers and state capture: black intellectualism needs to focus,...
It is astonishing that a book revealing deep-rooted and widespread corruption and state capture in government should instead prompt a pointless debate about Jacques...
In defense of trashing H&M
The Economic Freedom Fighter protest against H&M stores in South Africa has caused controversy both locally and overseas. People are calling their actions “unnecessary...
Stellenbosch University answers to Parliament about racism allegations [video]
Stellenbosch University management on Tuesday appears before Parliament's portfolio committee on Higher Education and Training to report on its progress in bringing transformation to...
Emmanuel Macron can’t seem to stop his Africa gaffes
French President Emmanuel Macron seems determined to carry on the proud tradition of Western leaders making the worst comments about the people of Africa,...
There’s a F***-up at Wits and management is having none of...
A Wits student, Zama Mthunzi, is due to appear before the South African Human Rights Commission this week for wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with...
Cages, coffins, petitions, and other fucked up shit black people deal...
Black people are used to getting the raw end of the deal. For centuries black and brown bodies have been beaten, lynched, arrested, tried,...
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.
I...
#BlackoutClifton: disrupting Cape Town’s whitest spaces
Over the past two weeks, posters titled “Blackout Cape Town†have been circulating on social media, calling for an occupation of Clifton Beach and...
Eusebius shows us we need academic justice as much as we...
This is the prepared text of the 2016 DCS Oosthuizen Academic Freedom Memorial Lecture that was delivered by Eusebius Mckaiser at the university currently...
Education MEC to probe high school following girls’ outcry
Pretoria High School for Girls will be investigated by Gauteng Department of Education authorities following allegations of racism against the institution.
“You have my support,...
Cape Town’s “Inclusive City†anti-racism campaign, aka #NotAllCapetonians
Cape Town has a racism problem. We know that. In a new campaign that seeks to build an inclusive city, the City of Cape...
It is the system itself that is violent
Sam Van Heerden says that if we do not see the hypocrisy in raging against damage done to property while being wholly indifferent to the...
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...
#MaritzburgCollege: ‘EFF protest’ didn’t contravene law banning party-political activities in schools...
*Editors' note: This story has been updated with a recent comment by Julius Malema
7 things you should know from black writers on writing about...
On Wednesday evening, writers Panashe Chigumadzi and Eusebius McKaiser headed a panel at the Time of the Writer festival entitled "Why Must a Black...
