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Confronting our white ignorance in a time when #RhodesMustFall

Mandela Rhodes Scholars by Mandela Rhodes Scholars 30 March 201530 March 2015

By Roné McFarlane As the #RhodesMustFall debate continues, there are aspects of white reactions that need to be talked about … by white people. There is, however, a danger in discussing whiteness in the time of the #RhodesMustFall protests. You could rightly argue that it would be detracting from black struggles that are receiving more […]

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‘Start with the room you’re in, change that conversation’

Mandela Rhodes Scholars by Mandela Rhodes Scholars 22 September 2014

By Suntosh R Pillay “We have too much faith in leadership. It lets us off the hook so we can say someone else messed up.” This was the warning of Rama Naidu, a panellist at the third annual Conversations for Change in Durban. An initiative of The Mandela Rhodes Community, it was held amid tense […]

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