By: Lavi Ramphomane You know why white women did not ascend to the rafters in order to hog the limelight with declarations like “all WHITE men are murderers” in the wake of…
Year: 2017
The future is not for softies.
By Gillian Schutte (Dystopian Facebook Posts) The future is not for softies. The best skills you can teach your young kids now are endurance and survival skills. Teach them how to live…
Students and the Youth must re-imagine democracy to honour the Youth of 1976
By Ashley Nyiko Mabasa (Student Voices) The occurrence of the #FeesMustFall movement came not only as shock but a theatrical display of students’ militancy to the South African protest landscape. Students dedicated…
The real reasons behind the crisis of the economy.
By David Van Wyk (Facebook Posts) People are bemoaning the fact that the economy is slipping into recession. Of course we will blame Jacob Zuma, the Guptas, state capture or whatever our…
Zwelethu Mthethwa’s Dark Fall From Grace.
By: Sfiso Atomza I never knew about Zwelethu Mthethwa, a South African Artist and now Murderer. He created socially engaged work, large-scale, gorgeous photographs of the marginalized citizens of his native South…
The radical economic transformation lie.
By: Gillian Schutte We are hearing the term radical economic transformation a lot nowadays. Every time I turn on the news on there it is – those three words that contain so…
Time for a woman to take the reins?
By Gillian Schutte. The presidential race is underway and for the first time in our democracy a woman, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, is presented as a definite contender. An interesting by-product of this is…
How to Spot an Infiltrator in your Movement.
By: Staff Writer There has been a lot of talk about agent provocateurs and infiltrators into movements such as Fees Must Fall and other Leftist groups. This should not surprise us. It…
Why do White Families Teach Racism to Their Kids?
By: Mawuna Remarque Koutonin
Gems from Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Public Lecture at University of Witwatersrand
Wits University and the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences hosted renowned Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on Thursday 02 March 2017 Ruben WaKa Sithole succinctly captured the essence of the…