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Racism

McKaiser needs to challenge his inner racist too
Opinion
/ 16 September 2020

McKaiser needs to challenge his inner racist too

COMMENT: Clicks – or some of its employees – demonstrated culpa, not dolus

By Glen Heneck
Paddy Harper: Anti-racism is the mane thing
Opinion
/ 12 September 2020

Paddy Harper: Anti-racism is the mane thing

What we want: Ramaphosa to cough up a hairball, racists in hair shirts and consumer boycotts that don’t turn hairy

By Paddy Harper
Eusebius McKaiser: Arguments to challenge your inner racist
Opinion
/ 9 September 2020

Eusebius McKaiser: Arguments to challenge your inner racist

These three common responses to racism must be deconstructed until something … clicks

By Eusebius McKaiser
The pencil test still colours the rainbow nation illusion
Opinion
/ 9 September 2020

The pencil test still colours the rainbow nation illusion

This latest racist hair fiasco is just one more thing that all the darkies in me are tired of defending and explaining

By Paballo Chauke
Right-wing Poland and the glorification of Hani’s killer
National
/ 8 September 2020

Right-wing Poland and the glorification of Hani’s killer

Polish anti-racism groups grow more concerned as the image of Chris Hani’s killer becomes normalised, with Janusz Walus’s likeness and name displayed on products for sale on a Naspers-owned website

By Lester Kiewit
Black bosses, please lead us well
Opinion
/ 2 September 2020

Black bosses, please lead us well

We need to do better to create compatible workplaces for black employees

By Siwaphiwe Myataza
Osaka using US Open as platform for activism
Article
/ 1 September 2020

Osaka using US Open as platform for activism

The 22-year-old fourth seed has spoken out repeatedly in the wake of the protests that swept the United States following the death of George Floyd during a confrontation with police in May

By Agence France Presse
Dear Mr President, all racists should be treated equally
Opinion
/ 18 August 2020

Dear Mr President, all racists should be treated equally

The ANC creates the impression that racism is tolerated and acceptable when perpetrated by its members

By Greg Werner
School polo coach in hot water for calling schoolgirls ‘strippers’
Education
/ 16 August 2020

School polo coach in hot water for calling schoolgirls ‘strippers’

Former Springbok and current school water polo coach Pierre le Roux has a litany of complaints against him, from body shaming and bullying to being racist to learners

By Sabelo Skiti
Women are South Africa’s changemakers and they deserve more
Opinion
/ 7 August 2020

Women are South Africa’s changemakers and they deserve more

The truth is the economy still largely revolves around men, especially white men like me, writes Alef Meulenberg.

By Alef Meulenberg
The mechanism of contagion in racism
Opinion
/ 26 July 2020

The mechanism of contagion in racism

How race came to function as fuel to an exploitative economic system. Take the case of South Africa…

By Kiasha Naidoo
Black Lives Matter – turning point at a historic moment
Opinion
/ 24 July 2020

Black Lives Matter – turning point at a historic moment

The protests that have taken place in the United States confront the racialised edifice that built the modern world

By Anthony Bogues
Beware of Big Business bearing gifts
Opinion
/ 19 July 2020

Beware of Big Business bearing gifts

Large corporates whose business has thrived because of inequalities, could be hijacking the anti-racist movement by offering money and not tangible changes

By Ahmed Sule
What is the future of black lives in historically white, elite schools?
Education
/ 19 July 2020

What is the future of black lives in historically white, elite schools?

These schools, to varying degrees, have an intense attachment to the values of authority and obedience — it is an attachment which numbs critical thought

By Andile Zulu
Black lives must matter in Africa too
Africa
/ 19 July 2020

Black lives must matter in Africa too

Although Africans must continue to support the Black Lives Matter movement, there is also the need for them to raise their voices against injustices in other African countries

By Audrey Donkor
Amadou Diallo will never be forgotten
Africa
/ 4 July 2020

Amadou Diallo will never be forgotten

Amadou Diallo, a Guinean man, was killed by NYPD officers 21 years ago. Today protesters still invoke his name as they fight for justice

By Nick Roll
Part III: Afropessimism and rituals of anti-Black violence
Friday
/ 2 July 2020

Part III: Afropessimism and rituals of anti-Black violence

The final part of Zamansele Nsele’s interview with Frank B Wilderson expands on some of the thinking in his latest book, ‘Afropessimism’

By Zamansele Nsele
How racism is an essential capitalist tool
Opinion
/ 2 July 2020

How racism is an essential capitalist tool

In the United States, the African American minority is capitalism’s ‘business cycle shock-absorber’

By Richard D Wolff
Eusebius McKaiser: Let’s slay some academic freedom myths
Opinion
/ 1 July 2020

Eusebius McKaiser: Let’s slay some academic freedom myths

Bigoted academics and shoddy or racist work are not above criticism — nor should they be

By Eusebius McKaiser
Pundits cling to football’s racial tropes
Sport
/ 30 June 2020

Pundits cling to football’s racial tropes

A study of European 2019 season commentary suggests prejudice is alive and kicking, but Black Lives Matter and Covid-19 may be changing this

By Luke Feltham
Please don’t celebrate me: Nothing hurts more
Friday
/ 30 June 2020

Please don’t celebrate me: Nothing hurts more

The Netflix series Sex Education shows that whether you’re celebrating or vilifying “the Other”, it’s all part of the same subjugation

By Zinaid Meeran
We need more anger about racism in South Africa
Opinion
/ 29 June 2020

We need more anger about racism in South Africa

Those who want a non-racial and equal society need to unite against both whites and blacks who collaborate to entrench a racist system

By Solomon Makgale
Hashtag lessons from the US and South Africa about racism and antiblackness
Opinion
/ 29 June 2020

Hashtag lessons from the US and South Africa about racism and antiblackness

The #Black Lives Matter, #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements show that democracy cannot happen without decolonisation

By Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Oh Shucks, an accidental blackface hero
Friday
/ 28 June 2020

Oh Shucks, an accidental blackface hero

Leon Schuster is having a few movies of his removed from Showmax and Phumlani Pikoli figures: what better time to reflect on this bruh than now?

By Phumlani Pikoli
White noise: Black people will always struggle to breathe and be heard
Opinion
/ 14 June 2020

White noise: Black people will always struggle to breathe and be heard

As long as white people refuse to confront their racism they remain robbed of the opportunity to fully understand it and its many manifestations

By Sorayah Nair
We need an outpouring of outrage about Africans killed by security forces
Africa
/ 10 June 2020

We need an outpouring of outrage about Africans killed by security forces

As Africa mourns George Floyd, we must look in the mirror and address police brutality on our own continent

By Solomon A Dersso
Understanding the violent protests across America
Opinion
/ 5 June 2020

Understanding the violent protests across America

The protests are rooted not in the pandemic, but in centuries of discrimination

By Pearl Matibe
Eusebius McKaiser: Two important lessons to learn about racists
Opinion
/ 3 June 2020

Eusebius McKaiser: Two important lessons to learn about racists

The racially intolerant act to keep black people in “their place”, some even while claiming they’re allies

By Eusebius McKaiser
A brief history of anti-black violence in China
Opinion
/ 3 June 2020

A brief history of anti-black violence in China

The recent news of evictions and mistreatment of African students in China during the Covid-19 pandemic is rooted in a history of violence and discrimination

By Winslow Robertson
We cannot reform ourselves out of the times we are in
Opinion
/ 1 June 2020

We cannot reform ourselves out of the times we are in

To end racism, we will have to change the structures from which it draws its mandate, and get rid of liberal and right-wing politicians who give it oxygen while we are being asphyxiated

By Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Sancho nets hat-trick, joins US killing protest as Dortmund cruise
Sport
/ 1 June 2020

Sancho nets hat-trick, joins US killing protest as Dortmund cruise

The English winger, who now has 17 goals and 17 assists in the Bundesliga this season, joined a host of protests in the German top-flight over the weekend at the death of an unarmed black man in the United States

By Ryland James
‘Soon he’ll be seen as threatening, not cute’: What it’s like to raise my black son in America
Africa
/ 1 June 2020

‘Soon he’ll be seen as threatening, not cute’: What it’s like to raise my black son in America

There is no separating George Floyd’s killing from the struggles black people have faced ever since the first slave ships landed on these shores

By Ifrah Udgoon
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