“When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie” – Yevgeny Yevtushencko Strange times these. A proposed non-electoral pact between the ANC, a…
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Narcocapitalism by Laurent de Sutter presents some disturbing truths about the anaethetised state in which we live, whether our drugs of choice are illegal or available on prescription
The youth of today can learn from the youth of 1976, who rose up and rejected the Bantu education system
If the protests in the United States and elsewhere are about systemic racial oppression, then South Africa’s experience is that unless toxic concentrations of political power are addressed, deep structural changes are unlikely to occur
By Lehlohonolo Mofokeng The brutal killing of a black man by the police force in the United States of America evoked in me what Chabani…
‘South Africa is a sinking ship and the Western Cape is a lifeboat, where many of us now want to be cast adrift before we are dragged down too’
Despite overwhelming support for Black Lives Matter, we feel hopeless — racial equality is more dream than reality and racism has never been enough for people to take to the streets
Succinct expressions of beauty tend to linger longer
The coronavirus pandemic provides a timely backdrop for thinking about humans’ destruction of other species
It Could Happen to You reveals an ideology that measures value exclusively in terms of money, despite its best intentions