This essay came third in the 2020 Ahmed Kathrada Foundation’s Youth Essay Writing Competition Against Racism Close your eyes and picture this, you’re running an everyday errand. This errand can be whatever you wish, collecting mail, buying groceries, paying bills etc. The one minute you’re paying for the bread your wife asked you to buy, […]
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Are our schools as accommodating as our constitution?
School is the first place where children get to interact with the diversity of this country, let us not let them go there narrow-minded
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The ANC’s psycho-political failure
The politics of compromise and concessions preserve, rather than rupture, the master-slave dialectic
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Caster Semenya, international sports, human rights and bodily integrity
The 800 metre world champion will be unable to defend her gold medal in the 800m race at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. In order to compete Semenya is expected to take testosterone suppressing medication
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Eliminating bias is the new frontier of AI innovation
Artificial intelligence is racist and sexist, and just like in the real world, change in the virtual world requires sustained effort
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South African sports keep moving the goalposts
Despite all the promises, transformation remains slow and too many dreams are being deferred
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The burden of collective black victimhood
The froth over a shampoo advert allows us to consider that we are not the victims we have always been made to believe we are
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In the time of the now, social is all important
The practice of individualism, as opposed to an understanding that there is a connective tissue which binds a society together, has been exposed by Covid-19
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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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Let’s stop using God’s name as an excuse for racial apathy
An open letter to my Christian brothers and sisters in the West: let us show that our religion is not the antithesis to racial equality
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Put in context, Mandela did what he could with what he had
Those who attack his assertions and actions should ask themselves what they have sacrificed for the country they want
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How do we fight racism when our schools are racially disintegrated?
By Lehlohonolo Mofokeng The brutal killing of a black man by the police force in the United States of America evoked in me what Chabani Manganyi noted in his seminal book Being Black in the World. In this book, Manganyi argues that there are two interwoven existential realities of being black—one positive and the other […]