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…
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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…
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…
The Erotics of Power, the Semantics of Guilt: A Decolonial Disruption of South African Legal Discourse
By Gillian Schutte AbstractThe 2025 Judicial Conduct Tribunal concerning allegations of sexual harassment against Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge has inaugurated a shift in South African jurisprudence. This essay offers a…
Reclaiming the United Nations from Western Decline.
By Gillian Schutte In 2025, on the eve of the United Nations’ 80th anniversary, a growing chorus of Western voices is declaring the organisation obsolete. The critique, echoed uncritically in South African…