Why your shirt shouldn’t say “fuck white people”
A video has popped up on YouTube by South African Renaldo Gouws who speaks about why wearing a shirt which says “Fuck white people,” is actually racist. Gouws has made many videos of his opinions on...
View ArticleIt’s easy for the ANC to use race as a campaign issue but it’s a very bad idea
On Friday, the ANC in an act of absurdity, marched against itself. The ANC (movement) will have an anti-racism march to deliver a memorandum to the ANC (government). Yes – you can laugh out loud now....
View ArticleUFS student describes violence after Monday’s rugby match disruption
Protests against outsourced workers hit the University of Free State on Monday night when protestors disrupted a rugby match on the campus. Things quickly turned violent as spectators tried to stop the...
View ArticleTrevor Noah says black anger will get you nowhere
South Africa’s prettiest export Trevor Noah does have some curious politics. In a wide-ranging interview on race, discrimination and gender with Lupita Nyong’o, the Kenyan-Mexican woman who won an...
View ArticleI am Malawian who lived in Palestine (and loved it)
SHASSY CHASOWA is a Malawian who moved to Palestine in 2007 after their father got a job in East Jerusalem. The family lived there for three years before they moved to South Africa, while Chasowa moved...
View Article“I have not felt more passionate than I do now for the need to decolonise...
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View ArticleHer name is Mishka Hoosen and she’s 🔥 🔥 🔥
This year’s Time of the Writer festival has already served up fascinating conversations about what exactly knowledge is, and how we relate to books. But it’s also introduced us to exciting new literary...
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Everyone from the EFF to the waitress’s mother has spoken out on #WaitressTip
South Africa has been lit with the Ntokozo Qwabe #WaitressTip saga – R130, 000 in donations have been raised, and a petition to rescind Qwabe’s scholarship has reportedly been delivered to Oxford...
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Working through Islamophobia in corporate Cape Town
JESS MOUNEIMNE says she’s had to hide her Muslim identity to prospective clients in an attempt to win business – and her experience hasn’t garnered the same outrage, or cash rewards as a waitress who...
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In Defence of Ntokozo, Wandile, and Black Political Agency
BRIAN KWOBA argues that much of the discussion surrounding the now infamous Obz Cafe incident attributed to Ntokozo Qwabe reveals problems of white supremacy, anti-blackness, and coloniality which the...
View ArticleRacism is not just the k-word
Activist, KOKETSO MOETI, describes how black people’s daily experiences of racism aren’t just in the outward expressions and name-calling, but in daily language and actions which enforce “subtle...
View ArticleWhat’s supposed to happen when a judge goes full-on racist?
Another week, another racist getting exposed on social media. This time, high court judge Mabel Jansen was revealed to have uttered some questionable remarks about black people in an exchange with an...
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“Sometimes customers push us to the limits”– waitrons speak on the people...
The furore around the incident at Obz Café between student activists Ntokozo Qwabe, Wandile Dlamini and waitress Ashleigh Schultz has put a spotlight on the racial and power dynamics in the food...
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Should racists be sent to jail?
This week has been a rough one for the “rainbow nation”. First, Mabel Jansen’s Facebook remarks had the country outraged, and then Florence Masebe spoke out about a racist incident on a Mzansi Magic...
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This is why you should never compare black people to monkeys
On Tuesday, The Times published a cartoon by Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro, which depicted the NPA’s Shaun Abrahams as a monkey doing the bidding of Jacob Zuma, who controls him with a...
View ArticleA man’s place in feminism is behind the women – and other lessons from...
On Tuesday night, people gathered at the Joburg Theatre to hear a panel of three African women reflect on Africa’s emancipation post-the North African uprising of 2011. The panel featured freelance...
View ArticleSilence is another language white people must learn
KIM HELLER feels that the defence of racist discourse as freedom of speech exposes the oppression of whiteness. Zapiro’s spew of racist cartoons, which is often sanitised under the guise of freedom of...
View Article5 more racist ads that will make you go WTF
People are freaking out over a Chinese laundry detergent ad – and rightfully so, because it’s kind of explicitly racist. But, sadly, it’s not the first ad of its kind to be flighted overseas. PHILIP...
View ArticleUWC students respond to Prof Xolela Mangcu
Self –indulgent Professor Xolela Mangcu mis-read our protest write Nangamso Bomvana, Ncedisa Mpemnyama and Marx Mtoto. On Thursday the 26th of May, the Centre for Humanities and Research at UWC hosted...
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Hey Europe, you’re still racist AF
Exhibit A Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan author, journalist and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing Berlin chronicles. Am in Berlin as one of the writers on a Daad Fellowship.. This is one of...
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