To separate Maxeke from inconvenient narratives is to shortchange her story; participating wholly in the time-old tradition of making women scatter cushions in rooms where decisions are made
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Don’t ever be too certain of who you are
Binary and linear thinking impoverishes the complexity of life
Posted inEquality, General
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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To succeed, learners need help in making the right subject choices
Every year an average of 300 000 learners leave school before reaching matric. Rather than waiting for young people to become disengaged, there are easy ways we can set them up for success
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Silence like a cancer
A trip to the leafy ’burbs demonstrates that noise pollution can strike anywhere, not just in urban apartments
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To all South Africans: In memory of who we are
When we critically inspect our histories, none of us come out completely faultless, but we will find something, and we can learn
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SCREEN GRAB: Funny, not funny
HBO’s Fake Famous is a humorous dive into the Instagram racket, but it misses the painful collateral damage of the influencer economy
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Youth Month competition: Who are you?
Tell us more about yourself and you could win airtime, data and the chance to have your thoughts published
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An automated ballistics identification system may be a way to rob the taxpayer
The recommendation to implement the ABIS system highlights a lack of technical expertise in the police service
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Youth Month: The SA school curriculum needs more thinking and less cramming
We cannot successfully prepare for the fourth industrial revolution until the greater part of our population is taught to think critically and independently
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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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Online learning, a mandatory alternative
We should be obsessed with how we can help our young South Africans access and utilise systems of secondary and tertiary entry education