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Posted inEquality, Lifestyle, Media

Reclaiming ‘bitch’ a pointless exercise

Siyanda Mohutsiwa by Siyanda Mohutsiwa 2 August 201312 August 2013

I need us to get serious for a few minutes. Let’s take some time to cut the jokes for once and start to look at this issue with the seriousness it deserves. Because I’m quite sure if we did, we’d be able to agree on the sham that is “reclamation of words”. “Reclamation of words” […]

Posted inEquality, News/Politics

Why all Afrikaners should go to Europe

Mandela Rhodes Scholars by Mandela Rhodes Scholars 4 April 201312 April 2013

By Mark John Burke Europe is a great place, it really is. You step off your plane onto a train that takes you to your destination and once there trams and buses stand ready to take you to wherever you want. Europeans have perfected recycling and they go to great lengths to ensure everybody’s safety. […]

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Oppression, disabilities and our children

Rod MacKenzie by Rod MacKenzie 21 March 201222 March 2012

Long, long ago we knew we needed words for what is truly precious in the times of oppression — and there were, and will be, many times. No one knows how, but we fashioned the following word: 滫. We took one of the characters for water, 氵and added to that a character used for the […]

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