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Animal rights activist Kenesias Dambakurima, founder of Voices for African Wildlife, won’t stop campaigning despite being regarded as an oddity by many white people. (David Harrison/M&G)

Vegans, pet lovers, ‘invade’ white spaces

Activists and pet owners of colour get a going-over because of racist views about people’s culture

Milisuthando (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/ M&G)

Building bridges over taken land

"Do I go Winnie or Mandela on him? Urrrggghhhh, I’m just trying to get fit, I don’t want to think about racism right now bletty shet".

Coal, a key fuel for electricity production, is a major producer of carbon dioxide emissions, a major driver of global warming. (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)

Letters to the editor: September 29 to October 5 2017

Readers write in about the effect of climate change on the poor, faith, and racial stereotypes.

Other countries will recognise Jerusalem and announce the relocation of their embassies. A second country did it and I repeat it: there will be others, it’s just the start and it’s important, Netanyahu

​Racist stereotyping threatens SA

It is the primary cause of the ‘us against them’ view that is tearing the country apart.

From our apelike Australopithecus ancestors to modern Homo sapiens

Black Brain, White Brain: The new wave of racist science

The last decade has seen a revival of a very old and long-discredited idea: that intelligence is influenced by racial origin.

Medicine wedded to African humanism

A colonial-era doctor’s lengthy study of Shona culture offers potent lessons for medical students.

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