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The AfCFTA is a new Scramble for Africa

The AfCFTA is creating a market of 1,2 billion people and a GDP of USD 2,5 trillion across 55 African Union member states. It is the world’s biggest free trade area and is destined...

By Hadebe Hadebe

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Culture / 02/02/21

Museveni’s Rigging & Legging: A Dance That Needs to Leave the Stage

The corrosive mentality of African leaders who think they are the only ones who can lead a nation is insidious. Over 80% of a country's population having lived shorter than the years a president has served in office is d...

By Motlalepule Moeleso

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Embracing Blackness means forgetting Gandhi

By Tshiamo Malatji

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A Child, Race and a City: Navigating Cape Town's Racial Contours

Since childhood I have been intrigued by what it meant to be black, finding it deeply unfair that it was my lot to take. Immersed in the diverse setting of Cape Town’s urban workin...

By Naledi Mbaba

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Culture / 28/01/21

Long Read: Mbembe's Postcolony

Because Africans are considered objects, they are forced into labour to become producers of wealth for the colonisers. (pg 28) Being an animal meant the colonised lived for the uses and pleasures of the colonisers. This...

By Tshiamo Malatji

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Indaba Is – Umdali

By Pulane Mafatshe

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Jazz and Black Consciousness

Jazz and Black Consciousness both emerged out of efforts of Black people to find their own voice in an anti-Black world that denies Black people a sense of being and belonging that...

By Mphutlane wa Bofelo

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Culture / 14/01/21

The Untold Story of Piet Ratombo

Closure. We all need closure. Closure is what many families were deprived of when their loved ones were assassinated by the Apartheid police or sentenced to death by hanging and some given a pauper's burial for their pol...

By Richard Mulaudzi