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Revolution by Court Order?
According to this document, the injustices (of the past) have no colour. This discoloration of political history makes everybody a potential perpetrator of injustices. It is my sub...
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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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Ten years on the road.
Trouble at every turn.
Longer-lasting licences offer one bright turn as the Madlanga Commission examines alleged police corruption and Tshwane confronts a grim discovery behind a spaza-shop door.
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Violence & June 16
A slave is an adult who has had to become a child all over again. This is the experience of black people who leave their homes as adults but spend the day as children in the company of white people and then put on their...
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Home to Johannesburg
Before I decided to leave Cape Town, I was depressed and saw no future for myself in the company I was working in. I took a R10 000 loan using my last pay slip after I had resigned...
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The Precariousness of Black Despair
There are many intellectual arguments I can make about why voting legitimizes coloniality and colonial systems of governance but man(!) this is personal. This moves past the headspace and passed intellect to my life’s so...
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A Tale of Two Fails
Martha Libuseng Lerumo is a survivor of domestic violence. She was sentenced to life imprisonment after she took the law into her own hands and killed her abusive husband.
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Encounters: Documentary Heaven
The South African and African films are as compelling as their global counterparts. From the vivid specifics of underground Cape Town in the 1960’s and 70’s to the influence of Frantz Fanon on African thought, exploring...
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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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