There are Afrikaners with West African ancestry, blue-eyed amaMpondo, English amaZulu
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Escaping the laager of racialised politics
Race is both merely a social construct and used to camouflage class inequalities
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How to share a karmenaadjie
An Afrikaner living abroad finds a trip home sets loose thoughts about land, farming, killing and sharing
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The Human Rights Commission explores why race remains a major issue in South Africa
Despite 27 years of democracy and constitutionally guaranteed equity, discriminations continues
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Seeing freedom through Dr Sindisiwe van Zyl’s eyes
The ‘people’s doctor’ never accepted a world as unchangeable, but rather as a possibility to connect with others
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Revisiting an old favourite in the new Star Trek: Discovery
Viewers will find in the series an exemplar of the exploration of forms of otherness most people have never dreamed of, as well as of divergent ways to act in unison
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Why is it still so hard for civil society to talk about internal racism?
Appointing Black women to leadership positions is a drop in the ocean of the real work that needs to be done to truly transform organisations, especially in the nonprofit world
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All lives matter — all life matters
All forms of life matter because all human beings are part of the encompassing family of living beings, argues Bert Olivier
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South Africans should stop thinking in terms of race
It was with a heavy heart that I read the news, first, of Herman Mashaba’s resignation from the position of mayor of Johannesburg and from the Democratic Alliance (DA), and soon afterwards of that of both Mmusi Maimane (leader) and Athol Trollip (chairman) from their respective leadership positions in the DA, and from the party […]
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The Place of Sara Baartman at UCT
The label “Hottentot Venus” continues to haunt our memory of Sara Baartman. This moniker, used in Jean Reaux’s posters to advertise the exhibit of Sara, may have been repudiated by renowned scholars such as Pumla Dineo Gqola, Zine Magubane, Yvette Abrahams, Patricia Hill Collins, Sander Gilman among others, but it has persisted as the lens […]
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Are South Africans really all capitalists at heart?
The South African news cycle often is awash with nationalist rhetoric from the emerging and vocal opposition, raging against the African National Congress. These quasi-socialists hold out an image of an economically liberated Southern Africa, a picture of Mzansi at peace on the land – their land. The capitalists too have a vision for South […]
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#ScienceMustFall in retrospect: Three lessons to help us move on
I remarked once that, “If the curricula shall be Africanised then, one may presume, we’ll have to find an Africanised version of Newtonian mechanics for the engineers, decolonised theorem proofs for mathematicians and the non-racist equivalent of Maxwell’s equations for physicists, among other things”. I said that this would be to take the call for […]