As we commemorate Workers Day 2026, and 32 years into democracy, it is time for us to reflect on the rights of workers and confront unemployment
I remain close to the places where ordinary black life meets the police, the farmer, the mine and the state face to face. That ground has no patience for fashionable radicalism. That ground exposes every counterfeit. Speaking from the safety of a donor-funded human rights NGO is ‘Butlerism’ on steroids. So is abandoning the Black Land First formation for the security of a career in Parliament
Widespread calls for "Larney, Jou Poes!" to be banned stem from feelings of white guilt and trepidation aroused by the song’s raw antagonism.
As white people we are raised to think we are central to everything, especially in relation to other races, writes Gillian Schutte.
The term "vagina" reduces women to a sexless commodity and contains violent potential, says documentary filmmaker, Gillian Schutte.
The nasty response to a protest by black lesbians at the Jo’burg Gay Pride shows the event has lost its political thrust, writes Gillian Schutte.
The fact that they are scantily clad is precisely the point of the protest.
In <i>Retribution</i>, the national film fund has backed another ‘crisis of masculinity’ film, argues <b>Gillian Schutte.</b>
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/ 18 October 2010
What is the deal with people and good old natural expletives?