In recent months the spotlight has, yet again, been shone on universities in South Africa. This time, the focus was on the fact that leading institutions (all of whom were previously designated as for “whites only”) remains largely untransformed. This time around, though, the focus was not only on numbers (even though that remains an […]
Trevor McArthur
Trevor McArthur is a PhD researcher affiliated to the department of sociology and social anthropology at Stellenbosch University. He holds a BWS (social work) and MPhil (criminal justice) from the University of Cape Town. McArthur researchers and writes on themes such as: postcolonial theories, race, gender and development, sex and sexuality, gender and homophobic violence, childhood, youth and the politics of ageing, as well as South African schooling.
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Race is too much of a sloppy concept to assist us in answering the coloured question
The “coloured question” revived itself, again. This time, not by politicians hoping to gain sympathy votes from the coloured majority in the Western and Northern Cape provinces. Jamie Petersen, a 22-year-old Cape Town resident, writing about her experiences of “being coloured in a black and white South Africa” sparked this latest wave of the debate. […]