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Death by sokkie musiek at corporate functions

Melo Magolego by Melo Magolego 25 February 201411 March 2014

Yet another award ceremony, yet another corporate weekend away. So, what shall be my mask this time? The history of power in corporate SA still looms large in the boardrooms of present-day South Africa. The black face needs to be masked by fluency in an institutional culture which, it is assumed, is ahistorical. That is, […]

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Unpacking the discourse of domination

Gillian Schutte by Gillian Schutte 18 December 20122 January 2013

Over this past year I have written a series of essays that attempt to deconstruct the “discourse of domination” and have provided the links to these articles in this piece. These essays were written in response to a series of racialised events that happened in South Africa in 2012 — occurrences, which I posit, are […]

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Zuma painting: Spearing the psyche and esteem of a nation

Jeremiah Kure by Jeremiah Kure 25 May 201225 May 2012

Private parts are just that. They are private. And even though the president is not exactly a private citizen, his privates have no place in the public arena. Not everyone agrees of course. It is, after all, the way of democracy but it seems even democracy has a nasty divisive side to it. The Spear […]

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