colonialism

BOOK EXTRACT Slavery, colonialism, imperialism, and apartheid have fundamentally unbalanced the values and self-concept of Africans. There must be a rediscovery of African identity, writes entrepreneur and Pan-Africant HLUMELO BIKO in…

The 1994 vote was not decolonisation. There is still a need to physically decolonise the country and decentre whiteness as the only legitimate form of civilisation. Otherwise we will continue to scoff at brilliant young black minds who…

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s book, Exotic England: The Making of a Curious Nation is a study of immigrant integration in England, and the way different cultures have come to make it, supposedly, more culturally receptive. But, the author…

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The ship was rocking, the wooden floor was creaking and the audience could sense the trepidation. The Storming, an adaption of Aimé Césaire’s Une Tempête, itself an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, was performed on 25 and 26…

After decades of conflict and “disappeared people”, Kashmiri women are now making their voices heard, demanding to know the whereabouts of their missing family members. PARVEENA AHANGER shares her journey of perseverance and hope with…

An animated feature film set for release later this year is set to bring the story of the Motswana King Khama III to the big screen. I Am Khama tells the story, is based on Motswana King Khama III's battle to save the Bechuanaland…

Race was major discussion point at the Franschhoek Literary Festival this year. During a talk called “Is Anger Underrated”, panelist Thando Mqgolozana discussed Khayelitsha township and the upliftment of people in poverty. Mgqolozana …

On the opening night of the Time of the Writer festival in Durban in March, author THANDO MGQOLOZANA announced that he’d forsworn white colonial literary festivals and that he’d be attending only one more such event. Mgqolozana was,…

It’s been more than a month since Rhodes Must Fall burst into action at the University of Cape Town (UCT). With the statue gone, the movement is now planning the way forward with the monumental task of decolonising the university.…

A heady aroma of dark fruit, a hint of white floral spice, and an undercurrent of racism. That’s the top-rated Boschendal Cecil John Reserve Shiraz for you. MANDY DE WAAL explains how Southern Africa’s colonial master managed to…

Members of the Rhodes Must Fall movement are looking for a new home after they were asked to leave the University of Cape Town’s administrative offices at Bremner Building on Sunday night.The movement was served with an eviction notice…

A video of SABC Newsroom anchor Eben Jansen getting hot under the collar while discussing the #RhodesMustFall debate and then angrily dismissing his guest, EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, has gone viral. AAISHA DADI PATEL rounds up the…

Shaka Zulu is the most famous African ruler to ever walk South African soil. Popular stereotypes imposed on the modern-day Zulu people continue to be influenced by facts and myths about Shaka. We all know that Shaka remodeled the assegai,…

The University of Cape Town (UCT) Senate has backed the removal of the statue of Cecil John Rhodes from its place of prominence on campus, and the UCT Council is set to take the final decision on Wednesday, but what will happen to it next?…

Transformation is on everyone’s lips. In what started out as seemingly benign poo on a statue, has turned into a nationwide movement of self-introspection over colonial symbols and ideas long passed. The move to remove the Cecil John…

Five years ago I walked out in the middle of my South African political thought tutorial in absolute outrage after the whole class and the white tutor agreed that Cecil John Rhodes was a great leader. I did not understand how a whole class…

Protests against tributes to colonialists have spread from Cape Town and Grahamstown now to Durban. On Thursday morning, students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College campus, woke up to find that a statue of King George V had…

The #RhodesMustFall protests at the University of Cape Town (UCT) have entered their third week, and students continue to occupy the Bremner building, which they have dubbed the Azania building. What initially began as a call for…

After three weeks of student protests, the University of Cape Town (UCT) senate has approved the removal of a statue of Cecil John Rhodes from campus, although the decision will be final only when the university Council meets in mid-April.…