In pictures: CPUT students join #FeesMustFall protests
On Thursday, thousands of Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) students protested at their Cape Town campus, wanting to see the Vice Chancellor, Dr...
In pictures: #FeesMustFall protestors clash with police outside Parliament
Hundreds of protestors from the University of Cape Town (UCT), Cape Peninsula University of Technology and the University of the Western Cape participated in...
#FeesMustFall: UCT slaps protestors with court interdict
The University of Cape Town was on Monday afternoon granted a court interdict preventing student protestors from "disrupting or otherwise interfering in any way...
#FeesMust Fall: Rhodes students join forces with Eastcape Midlands FET students
Protesters at Rhodes University have now joined students at Eastcape Midlands College, an FET college in Grahamstown, who have been on strike for the...
Five times the #WitsFeesMustFall protestors were victims of violence
The protests at Wits last week against the proposed 10.5% fee increase saw the university brought to a complete shutdown. The university Council eventually...
#FeesMustFall at UCT: “It’s about time the students spoke”
Classes at the University of Cape Town (UCT) were suspended on Monday as students blockade roads leading into campus. Students are demanding an emergency meeting...
#NoHijabDay: Sorry white feminists, it’s not about you
Twitter is awash with comments about #NoHijabDay, a supposed international day of solidarity inviting “all men and women, non-Muslim and Muslim†to not wear headscarves as part...
Principled? Five reasons to boycott Pharrell
Pharrell Williams is pretty cool. He has a swag hat collection, a super successful line of Adidas sneakers, and apparently never ages. But we...
Woolworths parody account inflames Twitter users
AÂ Twitter account that goes by @WOOLWORST_SAÂ has infuriated some Woolworths shoppers with its inflammatory tweets, and left onlookers gleefully waiting for a social media blow-up....
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...
Five on-stage acts of racism – Jesus, twerking & the KKK
Racism is alive, well and kicking ever so freely in the music business. It seems it’s not enough to simply entertain a crowd these...
The Daily Show’s newest writer: who is David Kibuuka?
On Thursday, Comedy Central announced that local comedian David Kibuuka will be joining The Daily Show as a staff writer. The 34-year-old comedian will...
Six hokey reasons for Mcebo Dlamini’s racism
Controversial student leader Mcebo Dlamini is facing criminal charges from the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD). This comes after Dlamini, now former...
#SexistSA: Why isn’t SuperSport broadcasting the women’s soccer World Cup?
The Fifa women’s World Cup began last Friday in Canada, but how many South Africans are even aware of the event? We certainly aren’t...
“People tend to romanticise UCT, but you come across comments like...
The University of Cape Town has a stern anti-sexual harassment policy, but is it enforced? RA’EESA PATHER spoke to female students at the university...
Banned in his own country and forced to leave SA under...
LEGESSE SEIFU, a 46-year-old Ethiopian asylum seeker, has been ordered to get out of the country before 28 May (tomorrow) by the South African department...
Africa Day: “We still fear being called kwerekwere and our shops...
The South African government is using Africa Day, which commemorates the 25 May 1963Â founding of the Organisation of African Unity, since renamed the Africa...
All apologies at Woodstock bicycle store accused of racism
A journalist’s allegations of racism at a bicycle repair shop in Cape Town has turned the spotlight back on racial profiling in South Africa.
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Supporting Hitler to protest white racism is”dangerous territory” – Steven Friedman
It is dangerous to consider axed Wits SRC president Mcebo Dlamini's controversial admiration of Hitler as a contribution to the black struggle against racism....
May Day, May Day! Save us from “economic freedom†– and...
Between recovery from the hangover of South Africa’s 21st birthday celebrations and Workers’ Day, political analyst EBRAHIM FAKIR considers whether “economic freedom†is appropriate in helping...