An Afrikaner living abroad finds a trip home sets loose thoughts about land, farming, killing and sharing
identity politics
Posted inMedia
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
Posted inLifestyle
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
Posted inEquality
Gasping for hope
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
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Zille and Ramphele – long live assimilation, long live!
Black power is long dead. If Mamphela Ramphele and black consciousness meant anything, that dream has been dissolved into the DA. The most recent example of this assimilation: Ramphele joining the DA. While watching the images of hugs and what was described by Ramphele as “the moment of greatness”, I was torn. Is this really […]