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...
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...
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...
#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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Bloodbath In Gaza: ‘The only thing that makes Israelis stronger than...
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...
On The Symbolism Of Being The First Black SA Woman To...
Meet Dr Mpho Tshivhase, the first black South African woman to be awarded a PhD in philosophy. As a young, black woman in a...
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...
Nomvuyo Ngcelwane Tells The Story Of Black People In District Six
Nomvuyo Ngcelwane's book Sala Kahle District Six was first published in 1998. For the 20th anniversary of the book, publishing house Kwela Books have...
‘Expel Israeli Ambassador To SA’: How SA Responded To Gaza Killings
From March 30, Gazans launched a six-week campaign, the "Great March of Return". They were demanding the right of Palestinian refugees and their descendants...
Coloured Man Running In The Suburbs
Racial profiling is still a common experience for people of colour living in predominantly white suburban neighbourhoods in South Africa. ANGELO C LOUW writes...
