I am a white, Afrikaans-speaking queer, the antithesis of what my family and church stood for. My identity crisis led to my identity formation
Constitution
Posted inEquality
No more excuses for land inertia
In the second of a three-part series on South Africa’s land question, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi says the constitution is clear: land seized under colonial states must be returned. But there is only policy confusion and elite possession
Posted inEquality
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
Posted inEquality
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, […]
Posted inEquality
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
Posted inBusiness, Environment
Eskom’s emissions are not compatible with the South African constitution
The government must not cave to Eskom’s demand that it be exempt from air pollution rules. Furthermore, the power utility needs to stay true to the principles of its own just transition strategy
Posted inEquality, General, News/Politics
Welcome, dear reader, to the land of bullshit
Two parallel discussions are before parliament to address the same issue: the amendment of section 25 of the Constitution to allow for expropriation without compensation and the Expropriation Bill that seeks to repeal the Expropriation Act
Posted inNews/Politics
Why Pierre de Vos is wrong about Cape independence
‘The renowned expert in constitutional law has clinically outlined just how democratically powerless the people of the Western Cape truly are within the current political dispensation’
Posted inNews/Politics
Put this in your pipe, Max du Preez
People in the Western Cape have rights under international law which take precedence over the Constitution and do not need South Africa’s permission to secede
Posted inEquality, General, Lifestyle, Media, News/Politics
Panayza Lesufi displays his lack of understanding of what a language is all about
I feel sorry for the ANC, to have an MEC for education in Gauteng who displays his ignorance of what a language is, fundamentally, for all and sundry to see. As has been widely reported, he has opined that the establishment of a Solidarity and community-funded Afrikaans-medium university would “perpetuate racist agendas”, and would be […]
Posted inBusiness, Equality, General, News/Politics
Does the ANC realise that their expropriation drive will make of South Africa an economic ‘basket case’?
By the day I am more and more astonished that the ANC — with a leader whom I used to regard as an intelligent man — is forging ahead with an expropriation policy that can have only one result: lowering the economic status of South Africa to rock bottom, where it can rub shoulders with […]
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Where is the wealth Malema wants to redistribute?
In a conversation about South Africa’s socio-economic malaise with a thoughtful sociologist from abroad, he asked the burning question that is shaping South African politics: “where is the wealth?” We talk often in South Africa about wealth redistribution, black economic empowerment and socio-economic rights. Our constitution at the outset sketches a socially just society as […]