Pietermaritzburg Girls High: codes of conduct won’t fix entrenched racism
Monday’s social media storm around racism at Pietermaritzburg Girls High School, where a white pupil allegedly used the k-word to describe black pupils, is forcing us to have (yet another)...
View ArticleIf HIV denialists have not been pardoned, why should the DA excuse Helen Zille?
Aids has taught South Africans why denialism can’t be tolerated – whether it comes from Thabo Mbeki or Helen Zille. In the same week that former newspaper columnist and ambassador to Uganda Jon...
View ArticleRacism at PMB Girls’ High goes further than the k-word
Alice Draper, who matriculated from Pietermaritzburg Girls’ High School in 2015, reflects on the institutional racism at the school. She says that, despite regular racist incidents, the national...
View ArticleWe are the children of liberation, the (un)free generation.
Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute’s Vuyokazi Futshane reflects on the burdens on the (un)free generation in post-apartheid South Africa. In the wake of Youth Day celebrations, she says that...
View ArticleAfriforum to lay racism and incitement charges against 100 social media users
On Wednesday afternoon, it was reported that Afrikaans lobby group Afriforum plans to lay criminal charges against 100 social media users at the Lyttelton Police Station on Thursday. Some...
View ArticleSouth African filmmaker thrown down the stairs by Airbnb host in Amsterdam
A South African was the victim of an alleged racially-motivated attack by her Airbnb host in Amsterdam on 8 July. Filmmaker Sibahle ‘Steve’ Nkumbi was staying in an Airbnb, a short-term rental, in the...
View ArticleAirbnb hosts have a history of being trash
This week, South African filmmaker Sibahle ‘Steve’ Nkumbi, was pushed down the stairs by her Airbnb host in Amsterdam, in what she says was a racially motivated attack. Airbnb has since banned the...
View ArticleGoodbye Ambassador Lenk, you won’t be missed
As far as trolls go, Arthur Lenk, Israel’s representative to Pretoria, was astutely ambassadorial. Mention Israel on Twitter and Ambassador would pop around to “celebrate” or “correct” the perception....
View ArticleThe decolonisation manifesto: Part 2 – Colonisation and the colonial subject
In the second part of a three-part series on decolonisation, Wanelisa Xaba says that in defiance of colonialism and white imagination, we must resist and find new ways of reimagining Blackness. Recent...
View ArticleFrantz Fanon: father of decolonisation
Frantz Omar Fanon, the psychiatrist, revolutionary and father of decolonisation, would be 95 years old. Born on the French colony Martinique, the darkest of eight children to a middle-class family,...
View ArticleSA’s Indian Muslims need to check themselves before going after Joey Rasdien
Comedian Joey Rasdien was dragged by Muslims on social media this weekend after making a controversial comment during a comedy set at the Ilm Arts Festival, which took place at the Sandton Convention...
View ArticleThe lived experience of racism Black South African Muslims go through everyday
Journalist, Nelisiwe Msomi, describes how black South African Muslims experience racism from fellow Muslims. As my taxi turned into Plein Street, I began to feel thirsty. I shouted, “after robot” as...
View ArticleJoburg private school accused of racism after allegedly kicking out black...
MEC for education Panyaza Lesufi visited a Johannesburg school to investigate allegations of racism after a group of black girls was ordered to leave the school because of their hair. On Monday, the...
View ArticleJoey Rasdien: blasphemy, bigotry and the other b-word
In light of the furore around Joey Rasdien’s controversial comments about Islam, and the reactions to them, Angelo C Louw reflects on the racism he has experienced as a coloured man in South Africa....
View ArticleEducation MEC and St John’s community seek expulsion of racist teacher
A prestigious private boys’ school, St John’s College (SJC) in Johannesburg, has found a senior teacher guilty of numerous racist remarks directed at learners. But learners, old boys, and parents...
View ArticleMalema might have a point about South African Indian people
After Economic Freedom Fighters commander-in-chief Julius Malema made controversial comments about Indian people during the party’s 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on July 29, many have come...
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Black couple beaten by six white men outside KFC in Pretoria
A black couple was brutally attacked by six white men outside a KFC in Pretoria on Wednesday. The woman subjected to the attack filmed part of the ordeal. The video has gone viral on instant messaging...
View Article‘I felt suffocated in myself’ – growing up dark in a South African Indian...
Nabeelah (22) sits in a hotel courtyard. With her bronzed skin, almond-shaped eyes and crop of curls, Nabeelah is beautiful. Her looks can be attributed to her mixed Indian and Zulu heritage. Nabeelah...
View ArticleSouth African Indian Muslims need to look in the mirror
South African Indian Muslims have been routinely called out for acts and statements of racism. And debates are raging about whether the community has a problem. Fatima Moosa says the debate should be...
View ArticleYour work communication may not be as private as you think
Earlier this week, four First National Bank (FNB) employees were fired by the bank for “political talk and using insulting language” after they made comments about race and DA leader, Mmusi Maimane’s...
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