An Afrikaner living abroad finds a trip home sets loose thoughts about land, farming, killing and sharing
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Youth Month: To reform or to abolish?
The paradox of Theseus’ ship could give some clues on institutional identity and food for thought for schools looking to ‘transform’
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Don’t ever be too certain of who you are
Binary and linear thinking impoverishes the complexity of life
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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
Posted inEquality
Coming of age in South Africa
Young people inherit generational inequalities, but cling on to a hope of self-authorship
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Black is not king, queen or peasant — black is complex
Although Beyoncé’s visuals are spectacularly beautiful, we are allowed to criticise ‘Black is King’ as reducing Africa for the gaze of the capitalist West
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None of us has a fixed identity
The actual character of reality as a process eludes most people because we are indoctrinated from a young age
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Biko: Philosophy, identity and liberation
Reading Biko: Philosophy, Identity and Liberation by Professor Mabogo Percy More; I am left to wonder of the man (Bantu Stephen “Steve” Biko) who should have been king; that is the man who should have been the first black president of the Republic of South Africa. Or is that racist? Perhaps I should say, the […]
Posted inEquality, Gender violence, Lifestyle
Being Cuban and black in post-apartheid South Africa
By Sol Maria Fernandez Knight Growing up, my mother always told me that I was a special child. But then again many parents want their children to feel unique and valuable, to instill a sense of pride in their identity, and to remind them of their heritage. As a child I did not think how being […]
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For black women, marriage is not a happily ever after
By Refiloe Makama On the 19th of May 2018 the world watched the wedding ceremony of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. With over 29 million people watching, the wedding was filled with every detail that marks a ‘true fairy-tale‘. Right here at home, every Sunday on the popular channel Mzanzi […]
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The present ‘world dis-order’
Bernard Stiegler, referring to the battle for the attention of (particularly young) users of technical devices such as smartphones, writes about the ‘dis-attention’ that results from this. What he has in mind is the manner in which capitalism, not wasting any opportunity for marketing, uses these mnemo-technical devices to disrupt the flow of attention on […]
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The craving for power
The hankering after power is as old as human beings; no, older – it is as old as the first unicellular being that emerged from the primeval morass of evolution. After all, like all organisms since then, it would have tried its primitive best to survive, to stave off death. And isn’t that already an […]