The Monkey Business of H&M and The Hokey-Pokey of the EFF!
It is fruitless to have debates about whether the H&M advert with a black kid wearing a hoodie saying “coolest monkey in the jungleâ€...
H&M deserves no sympathy: the fashion industry is built on brutal,...
In 2013, a multi-storey commercial building in the Bangladeshi capital city of Dhaka collapsed, killing 1135 people and injuring thousands more. The disaster was...
Trashing of H&M stores in South Africa endorsed by EFF top...
Earlier on Saturday, EFF members were seen entering a series of H&M stores - including Sandton in Johannesburg and Century City in Cape Town...
From Libya to Israel, the African migrant faces a dire plight
From the shores of the continent to Europe and Israel, there is no group of people around the world who are more abused and...
How to survive the holidays with your white partner’s family
Choosing to love someone who is white can be difficult. You have to deal with the comments you get from other people of colour...
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 is no freedom of speech on Facebook, activists say
Facebook has been making headlines globally for temporarily banning users who comment variations of “Men Are Trash†on the site. This is in line...
Wits University medical school disputes claims it is maliciously failing black...
Students at the University of Witwatersrand’s medical school have accused the school of failing black students and accepting bribes to pass certain white students....
Robert Mugabe and Ratko Mladić: white commentary takes up too much...
Following the fall of Robert Mugabe and Ratko Mladić, Kelly-Jo Bluen questions why outsiders feel so assured in their detached analysis on celebration or...
The coloured community won Idols SA this year
So, a coloured girl from Bishop Lavis won Idols on Sunday night, and some people on Twitter are mad because they believe that coloured...
#BlackMonday: We must centre farmworkers in the “farm killings” debate
Though writers have opined on the apartheid nostalgia exhibited by #BlackMonday protesters, there has been silence in terms of placing land and non-white bodies...
I wanted to be more white
: On 5 November 2017, the Weekend Argus published a column by Kfm presenter Sherlin Barends, in which she commented on the athlete Wayde...
What to do when you are faced with hate speech
We all have those friends on Facebook who claim they have an absolute right to their opinion. "Well, that's my opinion and I am...
Here’s why you should think twice before naming a restaurant ‘Misohawni’
Today in WTF 2017, two white men open an Asian fusion restaurant in Melville and decide that the perfect name for it would be...
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...
The President’s Keepers: State capture, white vindication
The Johannesburg launch of Jacques Pauw's controversial book, "The President's Keepers", was a noteworthy event. For some, the launch represented a rallying point against...
#BlackMonday and nostalgia for” “those days”
For many people, the brandishing of the apartheid flag at the #BlackMonday protests was unsurprising: it was part of the violence enacted daily on...
#BlackMonday: Whither the political leadership?
That South Africa is a bitterly divided society is a trite observation, and those divisions must inevitably play out in how different groups interpret...
WTF is the apartheid flag doing at #BlackMonday protests?
Protesters donned black and carried white crosses - and some the old apartheid-era flag - in the #BlackMonday protests. The protest raised questions about...
#CoffinAssault perpetrators are only sorry they were caught
In August 2016, Theo Jackson and Willem Oosthuizen forced Victor Mlotshwa into a coffin and threatened to set it alight. Their attack was caught...
