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BONGEKILE MACUPE

“Excuses” hinder varsity transformation, academics say

Academics say that while a lot of ground has been covered when it comes to higher education, a lot more still needs to be done

  • Bongekile Macupe
4 min read
Capitalism creates classes because it breeds inequality and, in South Africa, class is reflected in inequality based on race. (David Harrison/M&G)
APARTHEID

Class the DNA of society

‘Class, in other words, is much more than just one aspect of the social complex,’ writes one of our readers

  • Letters
5 min read
ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa
CLASS DIVISION

Repugnant outcomes of a caste system

Intergenerational legacies of socioeconomic exclusion have locked millions of South Africans into social castes, not classes.

  • Liepollo Lebohang Pheko
8 min read
‘But culture is not fixed or uniform. It is often contested from within. My mother never forced my sister or me to conform to norms presented to us by some as a fixed part of our culture.’
BLACK MIDDLE CLASS

Class divisions multiply, but don’t add up

We like putting people into their little boxes, but South Africans are way too tricksy to stay put, writes Rebecca Davis.

  • Rebecca Davis
5 min read