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.
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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…
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…
Ramaphosa’s Meeting with Trump: A Humiliation in the Shadow of White Capital
By Sipho Singiswa: President Cyril Ramaphosa met with Donald Trump yesterday in what, on the surface, may have appeared to be a standard diplomatic encounter. But for those observing from a Black…
Africa Together or Africa For Sale? Julius Malema and the Crisis of Revolutionary Integrity
FILE PICTURE: Ivor Ichikowitz, executive chairman of Paramount Group, extolls the virtues of the Maverick, a police armoured personnel carrier, at the opening of the Africa Aerospace and Defence air show at…
The Western Media is Dying.
Western media outlets have often resorted to dumbing down societies by reducing global events to shallow soundbites or clickbait that reinforces convenient stereotypes, writes Gillian Schutte
Russia Condemns Biden’s ‘Scorched Earth’ Sanctions
By Gillian Schutte Donald Trump is sworn in today under the cloud of President Joe Biden’s closing salvo against Russia’s oil industry. In a final act before leaving the White House, Biden…
Russia’s Diplomatic Clarity: A challenge to western hegemony
By Gillian Schutte Western pundits and politicians continuously flood the global media landscape with noble-sounding claims about promoting democracy and defending human rights.Play Video However, their actions—from military invasions to political meddling—reveal…