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The race issue

Smoke, Coke and mirrors

Here's my thing. Black South Africa and white South Africa remain just that -- two separate countries.

A whiter shade of pale

Humbling, enervating, mystifying -- race is a twisted choreographer that plays silent havoc with our days.

'Ballet doesn't identify colour, it identifies talent'

The black body is not suited to ballet, dancer Thoriso Magongwa was told by choreographer Martin Schönberg at the Ballet Theatre Afrikan.

Being black in the DA

Being a person of colour in the DA is not for sissies. Mandy Rossouw talks to some party members.

Words don't come easy

Forget democracy and nonracialism. What we need is a whole new language, writes Andile Mngxitama.

Still just another dorpie

A dejected mongrel slumps on the sunlit, polished stoep of a three-roomed RDP house in Tshing township, Ventersdorp.

In black and white

Why are none of the ministers appointed to key economic portfolios in Zuma’s Cabinet black? Julius Malema's question has caused a debate on race.

Can't do without the racists

We need racists, or at the very least people who think in terms of race, because somebody has got to suffer, writes Chris Roper.

The new currency

As blacks consolidated their political power after 1994, whites fortified their position in the economic sector.

Of pretence and protest

Njabulo S Ndebele explores the collective anguish of a nation trying to find the way past race and into leadership.

Battles of Bench and Bar

How race -- and Judge John Hlophe -- turned the judiciary upside down. Sello S Alcock reports.

In defence of African leadership

The SA economy was developed with forced cheap labour, mainly Africans and the other oppressed communities classified as Indian and coloured.

Age of innocence

Percy Zvomuya spoke to high school and university students born in or after 1987 and asked them about their attitudes to race.

Spreading the love of opera

Soprano opera artist Loveline Madumo, one of the first black opera singers in Suth Africa, was first exposed to classical music by Bernard, her violin

So, what tribe are you?

There's a "blacker than thou" attitude that often permeates ethnic identity in post-apartheid South Africa.

'Is this our new maid?'

Life in the last white bastion means having to explain how you got there in the first place. Palesa Morudu reports from Cape Town.

Hell's kitchen

It started as a jolly dinner party but turned into an uncomfortable night when a guest crossed the line, writes Pearlie Joubert.

The curious case of the black litterbug

"What is it with black people and littering?" a white, male acquaintance asked me on a recent trip to Cape Town.

Maties' slow dance to integration

Nine years after graduating, I am back at Admin B, this time to meet Russel Botman, theologian, former UDF activist and Stellenbosch University's firs

Who controls the media?

Tanya Pampalone visits Johannesburg newsrooms to see if the answer is simply black and white.

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