EX-ROBBEN ISLAND EMPOWERMENT FORUM (ERIEF) PRESS STATEMENT (May 05, 2020) The Impact of Neglect and COVID-19 0n Robben Island Ex-Political Prisoners.
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Why Race Justice?
As a white person privy to a gamut of white attitudes, it is of great interest to me to explore how these divisive perspectives of white privilege proliferate in a way that…
Why I reject the “All Black Men Are Trash” campaign.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Routing for the Horde – A Response to Fakir and Soni’s Protest Mythology
Article by: Jay Schutte