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Coloured Man Running in the Suburbs
Racial profiling is still a common experience for people of colour living in predominantly white suburban neighbourhoods in South Africa. ANGELO C LOUW writes about his experience and wonders how much...
View ArticleOn The Symbolism Of Being The First Black SA Woman To Hold PhD in Philosophy
Meet Dr Mpho Tshivhase, the first black South African woman to be awarded a PhD in philosophy. As a young, black woman in a field that is generally dominated by white men, this is a feat to be...
View ArticleJulius Malema – Populist, Not Public Intellectual
In the past few months, the educational achievements of many of South Africa’s young politicians and activists have been celebrated. But a university degree does not necessarily suggest knowledge. The...
View ArticleStop Telling Black People How To React To Racism
On Tuesday, Supersport released a report on the now-infamous Ashwin Willemse walkout and racism accusations at the television studios. In May, Willemse walked off the set of the station accusing Nick...
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Decolonial School “POC” Supper Had No White People Despite Backlash
The Decolonial School hosted at the University of Cape Town (UCT) has received mass attention over the last week. This attention, however, had very little to do with the actual content of the school...
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Women’s Prize Winner Kamila Shamsie On Writing And Her Book ‘Home Fire’
Writer Kamila Shamsie humanised the political story of a British family caught up by Isis – and in so doing, won the Women’s Prize for Fiction. In a reworking of Sophocles’ Antigone, her seventh book...
View ArticleOn Tuning Out The Politics And Finding Enjoyment In The Problematic
ATTENTION: it’s okay for you to enjoy the capitalist, imperialist, heteronormative, misogynistic, homophobic and racist spectacle that is the World Cup. Or The Royal Wedding. Or books and films and...
View ArticleEFF And Traditional Leaders Unite Over The Land Question
The Economic Freedom Fighters and Congress of Traditional Leaders of SA (Contralesa) have joined forces in the heated debate around land expropriation without compensation in South Africa. At a joint...
View ArticleScarlett Johansson: From Whitewashing To Straightwashing
After its release in March 2017, Rupert Sanders’ American sci-fi action Ghost in the Shell was widely accused of whitewashing due to its casting of white actress Scarlett Johansson for the role of...
View ArticleThe Critical Stans Episode 3: “Worshipping At The Altar of Celebrity (And...
Join The Daily Vox journalists SHAAZIA EBRAHIM and FATIMA MOOSA every week as they chat all things fun and serious around fan culture, fandoms and what it means to be a stan. They’ll be destroying...
View Article5 Things From The Obama Mandela Lecture
Continue the legacy of Nelson Mandela to achieve great things. That was the main message that emerged from the 16th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, which was given by former United States president...
View ArticleWhy Obama’s Speech Did Not Give Us Feels
You could hear a pin drop as former US president Barack Obama delivered the 16th annual Nelson Mandela lecture at the Wanderers Stadium on Tuesday. It could well have been because of the biting cold,...
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Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire Gives A Nuanced View Into The State’s Response To...
The current political climate is such that anti-immigration and Islamophobic right-wing policies are fast gaining traction. From this climate emerges Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, a gripping book that...
View ArticleRacism, Exploitation Accusations Levelled At Durban Market Agents
Transgression, racism and exploitation are the given reasons for an uproar at the Durban Fresh Produce Market. Workers under Delta Market Agents embarked on a picket on Sunday evening calling on the...
View ArticleCelebrating Mam’ Albertina Sisulu In The Hundredth Year Of Her Birth
Chanting “Wathint` abafazi, Strijdom! Wathint` imbokodo uzo kufa!” outside the Union Buildings 62 years ago, it was Albertina Sisulu and other women anti-apartheid activists who paved the way for the...
View ArticleGermany And South Africa: Humanity’s Tenuous Relationship With Progress
As genocide and concentration camps have entered our lives through what is happening to the Rohingya people and the internment of immigrant children in Trump’s America, I have reflected even more on...
View ArticleThe Critical Stans Episode Seven: “Desi Girl Feels”
Join The Daily Vox journalists SHAAZIA EBRAHIM and FATIMA MOOSA every week as they chat all things fun and serious around fan culture, fandoms and what it means to be a stan. They’ll be destroying...
View ArticleThings Non-Black POC Need To Stop Doing
Racism is often thought of as something that exists within communities of a certain light colouring. However, contrary to that idea racists exists in all communities especially the non-black people of...
View ArticleRosie Motene On Her Book ‘Reclaiming The Soil’
A black girl’s struggle to find her African self is the tagline of Rosie Motene’s autobiography. In her book, the presenter, actor and businesswoman paints a startling picture of living as a black...
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Toya Delazy: Why I Named And Shamed A Homophobic Bully
Pop star Toya Delazy has been hit with heavy criticism from some Zulu men on Twitter over the past few days, after she posted a picture of herself in ibheshu, traditional Zulu regalia most often worn...
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