The DA’s white, liberal establishment has to face the facts
Indications from the just concluded federal congress of the Democratic Alliance (DA) are that it will take some time yet, if ever it should…
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Affirming human dignity towards non-racialism
Anti-racism week has recently ended, culminating in Human Rights Day. To mark 21 March as Human Rights Day confirms the democratic intention to overturn…
SA’S long journey to transition
Transition: ‘the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another.’ The word has an effortless ring to it, as…
Leaders need to study what has worked in Africa
In this article I will borrow from Professor David Moore’s characterisation of the Zimbabwe Crisis to be one of “primitive accumulation, nation-state formation, and democratisation”, simply…
All the President’s men and women
It turns out there are clouds on the horizon in the ‘new dawn’ announced by President Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation Address….
Is a truly global democratic future possible?
There is an assumption that when we use the word ‘democracy’, we all have a common understanding of what the word means and how…
The Zuma Years are virtually over
Will Cyril Ramaphosa eventually appoint an independent National Director of Public Prosecutions, and will he be able to build sustained support within the ANC…
The monkey business of H&M and the hokey-pokey of the EFF
Given centuries of offensive racist tropes associating black people with monkeys ought to have informed the entire chain of product developers, copywriters, marketers and…
Moving beyond H&M to really tackle racism
The controversy hit when clothing store H&M ran advertisements featuring a black boy wearing a hoodie with the words ‘Coolest monkey in the jungle’….
Afrikaner identity in post-apartheid South Africa
Why is it that when the West was turning away from direct colonialism in the mid-20th century, South Africa shifted to apartheid, an intensified…