Gillian Schutte The West claims Putin stole Ukrainian children while they remain silent on Ukraine’s own conduct. Russian-speaking families forced into basements before buildings are detonated are caught on video yet dismissed…
Author: Media for Justice
The Untouchable Humanitarian: Rethinking Imtiaz Sooliman’s Power, Politics and Shadow Networks
By Sipho Singiswa Sipho Singiswa’s article interrogates the power, politics and public mythology surrounding Gift of the Givers. It traces the organisation’s influence across humanitarian diplomacy, media narratives and corporate partnerships. It…
Smearing Justice: Marianne Thamm’s Crusade Against Advocate Muzi Sikhakhane vs What He Actually Said.
Gillian Schutte’s How Marianne Thamm’s Campaign Tries to Derail Sikhakhane’s Argument exposes how Daily Maverick’s Marianne Thamm distorted Advocate Muzi Sikhakhane SC’s closing argument at the Mbenenge Tribunal. Thamm’s October 22 article mocked his constitutional reasoning as chauvinism, reducing a nuanced legal defence to a culture-war caricature. Schutte argues that this reflects a deeper liberal bias — a colonial feminist reflex that refuses to recognise African jurisprudence on its own terms while turning serious legal debate into ideological spectacle.
Afrofuturism or Energy Enslavement: A Black Consciousness Call to Claim Wakanda
By Gillian Schutte Beneath the mountains of a fictional African land, a radiant blue current flows like a heartbeat. It lights villages and cities, powers technologies, and binds a nation through shared…
Charlie Kirk, Black Joy, and the Discipline of Liberal Civility
By Gillian Schutte “The colonist makes history. His life is an epic, an odyssey. He is the absolute beginning: ‘We made this land.’ He is the one who brings truth into being.”…
South Africa’s Manufactured Russia Panic – From Job Recruitment to Global Conflict Narratives
Gillian Schutte traces how donor-funded media captured the narrative — turning glossy influencer campaigns promising young South African women jobs in Russia into a human-trafficking scandal. By Gillian Schutte On 25 August…
Ladies and Gentlemen, What if Pieter Kriel is Helen Zille’s Latest Boy Puppet?
By Gillian Schutte Somewhere between squeezing his teenage zits and setting up his selfie-stick, Pieter Kriel has stumbled onto centre stage of South African political theatre – arms outstretched, voice shaking with…
Two Judicial Sagas, Ten Years Apart: The Mabel Jansen and Selby Mbenenge Cases
By Gillian Schutte West Indian psychiatrist and decolonial philosopher, Frantz Fanon, wrote that “the Black man has no ontological resistance in the eyes of the white man.” He named a violence deeper…
From Flirtation to Tribunal: The Misuse of Article 5 in the Mbenenge Case.
By: Gillian Schutte As the Judicial Conduct Tribunal against Judge President Selby Mbenenge drags on under intense public and media scrutiny, a curious and dangerous paradox has taken shape: the accused is…
Ukudlalisa Ngamazwi: Misreading Erotic Play in a Feminist Courtroom — A Trial Against African Epistemologies
By: Gillian Schutte (uMamakaKai) What unfolds in the Judicial Tribunal of Judge President Selby Mbenenge is more than a battle between accuser and accused. It is a struggle over meaning. And not…