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Amaxelegu – Review
It is the 2020s in unfriendly and disengaged Philipi, one of Cape Town’s youngest townships with no more than forty years of history. A visibly tired and sluggish Mama Priscilla (N...
By Xolani Tembu
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Cecil John Rhodes: British Empire Hitman
“We fight Rhodes because he means so much for oppression, injustice, & moral degradation to South Africa - but if he passed away tomorrow there still remains the terrible fact that something...
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Out of WAFCON.
Never out of our hearts.
The final whistle ends a campaign, not the pride of a nation. Banyana Banyana leave the pitch together—heartbroken, held, and still ours.
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‘The Dead Will Arise’: A Review of These Potatoes Look Like Humans: The Contested Future of Land, Home and Death in South Africa
Central to European colonial conquest which laid the foundation for white settler colonialism in ‘conqueror South Africa’(Ramose 2018) since 1652 is the violent dispossession of the land of the Indigenous people by Europ...
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Ka Lebitso La Moya - Misled to Not-So-Green Pastures
The production tells the story of the community of Ha Satane, a fictional township plagued by unemployment, poverty, and crime. Salvation seems to come in the form of a new priest,...
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Language As Land: Nurturing Cultural Identity & Intellectual Diversity
The same people who revel in citing philosophical, political, religious, and intellectual traditions from Europe, Asia, and so forth that are named after people are likely to cringe, frown, and fret if one were to choose...
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Fallacy: The ANC History of South Africa
“Nothing can be changed until it is faced.” is the tagline for Tara Moore’s debut documentary, Legacy: The De-Colonized History of South Africa. So let us face the documentary, whi...
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We Can Re-invent Ourselves and Our Future
It seems in our common quest for belonging, there is also the compulsion to ostracise and dehumanise others. Much of Nyamnjoh earlier research outputs interrogate this unfortunate dynamic. Similar traits can be discerned...
By Sanya Osha
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The Paucity of Black Intellectuals
My study on this phenomenon revealed that a significant number of black intellectuals and potential ones left the country, either to work or study abroad, as it was challenging to do so in a...
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