Italicising words distances languages from their place in South Africa.
In this ‘combustible environment’ shopkeepers attack foreign shop owners, but departments too are brutal.
Wits students reignited #FeesMustFall but the protest lacked a clear aim, and gender queer protesters confronted exclusion from male members.
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela was vindicated by the Constitutional Court on Thursday regarding her 2014 Nkandla report.
Labour tenants live in dire conditions and fear eviction. Meanwhile, many farmers have not been notified of claims on their land.
Many know about Sharpeville. Few know about the anti-pass march in Soweto on the same day in March 1960.
Church and state may be separated in South Africa, but people’s belief systems flow subtly through all our public discourses.
Ester Mteshane says the fact workers are willing to lose pay and risk dismissal in an unprotected strike underlines the seriousness of their issues.
Words like “woke” can erode and cancel out debate. Some would say this is problematic.
The survivalist group Kommandokorps has warned Afrikaans-speaking students at the university that their language and culture is at stake.