The story of a Malawian orphan who grew up to bring happiness and dignity to many in her community is an inspiration for others
Equality
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A portal to empathy: Photographs that change the world
It is important not to look away from visceral pictorial evidence of the suffering of disempowered people
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The Human Rights Commission explores why race remains a major issue in South Africa
Despite 27 years of democracy and constitutionally guaranteed equity, discriminations continues
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Youth Month 2021: Under which banner will the youth unite?
The ‘old guard’ vigorously defends its monopoly on power, while praising but excluding the younger generation
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O, Canada! Art bears witness to ‘dark secrets’ of colonised places
An installation and a documentary about the notorious residential school system amplify calls to define such deaths worldwide as genocide
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Photo essay: South Africa stands with Palestine
Student photographers capture the inside of a South African protest for the freedom of Palestine, outside the Israeli embassy in Pretoria
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We must remember the call for liberation upon which African Day was founded
African Liberation Day has been numbed down to feel-good festivities and colourful clothing, but we must not forget it is a day upon which the path for liberation was declared
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Hysteria over declining fertility rates is just another manifestation of white supremacy
Increased immigration from the brown-youth-populated Global South to the ageing white Global North does not feature as a solution in many Western arguments. Could the fear of a “blacking of the West” be the reason?
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Government does not have the right to ignore rural citizens
Proposed changes to the Traditional Courts Bill to remove the possibility to “opt out” and use magistrate’s courts instead are probably unconstitutional, and definitely play into the hands of traditional leaders instead of their communities
Posted inEquality, Lifestyle
A spoonful of belonging for the homesickness
When it comes to cravings for food from home, my palate is no culinary snob
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Land, slavery and cattle matter: To move forward, we need to look back
In a three-part series on South Africa’s land question, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi takes a look at the colonial conquests that drove us here
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Queer rights in South Africa: What happened to the dream?
It is unfathomable that gay people are being killed in the first country in the world to have enshrined their freedom in its constitution