White elites have racialised the conversation about poor people in the Global North in order to maintain power and the neoliberal agenda
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South African road users drive us to distraction
There is a certain audacity on our freeways — it highlights inequality and gives our country one of the highest accident rates in the world
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Racism – the greatest virus of our time
This essay came third in the 2020 Ahmed Kathrada Foundation’s Youth Essay Writing Competition Against Racism Close your eyes and picture this, you’re running an everyday errand. This errand can be whatever you wish, collecting mail, buying groceries, paying bills etc. The one minute you’re paying for the bread your wife asked you to buy, […]
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Are our schools as accommodating as our constitution?
School is the first place where children get to interact with the diversity of this country, let us not let them go there narrow-minded
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To whom it may not concern
If you’re still yelling “all lives matter”, these letters are for you
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Why money cannot buy us freedom
We must invent a humane world in which to live and die with dignity. This entails both an economics and a consciousness of black freedom
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The paradox of customary marriages
Just because they are performed differently from civil unions does not mean they don’t come with the same responsibilities — people just don’t know it
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Malawi elections are a lesson for the world
While outgoing US President Trump has repeated tantrums at the prospect of leaving the White House, a lesson in democracy from Malawi is worth paying closer attention to
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The recklessness of relative truths
Democracy isn’t possible without some consensus on what constitutes valid knowledge
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Whose life is it anyway?
The way we deal with abortion is shaped and directed by the language we use to talk about it
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Peacemaking criminology as ubuntu: A reply to Thuli Madonsela
If the rich and powerful are afforded amnesty, then so too must the poor who are often pushed into lives of crime
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Miss South Africa win has tribalism rearing its ugly head
Since the first Venda woman was crowned over the weekend, hateful comments have been spewed like bile on social media