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identity politics

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How to share a karmenaadjie

by Anelia Heese 12 July 202126 July 2021

An Afrikaner living abroad finds a trip home sets loose thoughts about land, farming, killing and sharing

Posted inMedia

Black is not king, queen or peasant — black is complex

by Paballo Chauke 4 August 20204 August 2020

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

by Bert Olivier 22 July 202022 July 2020

The actual character of reality as a process eludes most people because we are indoctrinated from a young age

Posted inEquality

Gasping for hope

by Peter Townshend 11 June 202011 June 2020

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

Posted inNews/Politics

Zille and Ramphele – long live assimilation, long live!

by Athambile Masola 29 January 20145 February 2014

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 […]

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