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Ncebakazi Makwetu

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Ncebakazi Makwetu

Ncebakazi Makwetu is a lecturer in the department of liberation studies, faculty of social sciences and humanities, at the University of Fort Hare

The first target: Xenowatch talking to victims of xenophobic violence. Between 1994 and November 2021, the platform identified 873 incidents of victimisation, which included 612 deaths, 1 184 physical assaults, 122 298 people displaced and 6 306 shops or properties looted or damaged. Photo: Xenowatch ACMS
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Denying SA is xenophobic: sounds like Trump’s Maga

The two are a mirror of one another.When democracy declines, societies become divided by race, religion and ethnicity. Leaders tolerate or encourage violence to further their own…

  • Ncebakazi Makwetu
8 min read
If a state can unilaterally suspend the rights of a racialised group or dump people onto foreign soil, no citizen’s rights are secure
OPINION

The architecture of Israeli apartheid and the suppression of Palestinian existence

If a state can unilaterally suspend the rights of a racialised group or dump people onto foreign soil, no citizen’s rights are secure

  • Ncebakazi Makwetu
9 min read
Maga and Israeli rhetoric thrive on distorting the past with selective tradition and nostalgia, whether it is the myth of a “Great America”, that never existed for many, or the claim to land by Israel, without acknowledging the historical complexity of the colonial history in Palestine. (File image)
APARTHEID COMPARISONS

History and reality: Why people are susceptible to Maga and Israeli propaganda

Mass education in historical thinking is needed to help people to detect and resist propaganda.

  • Ncebakazi Makwetu
10 min read