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Right-wing Afrikaner movements seem to have forgotten that job reservation and other apartheid laws benefited white people at the expense of black people. Photo: Juda Ngwenya
AFRIKANER

Trade union Solidarity’s myth of Afrikaner suppression exposed

The apartheid state used job reservation, quotas, selective procurement, import controls and industrial policy to advance working class Afrikaners

  • Khwezi Mabasa
3 min read
Although these elections have a sense of anxiety and tension to them, it is an indication of the country’s evolving democracy and society’s changing priorities over time. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP)
ANC

Combat destructive nihilism to build an egalitarian South African society

To overcome negativity, and draw citizens back into politics, we need to recapture the viability of class struggle which can usher in real change

  • Andile Zulu
13 min read
In an episode of The Burning Platform podcast, the host, Gareth Cliff asserted that racism was not a priority in the 1 November local elections and claimed that no one was interested in identity politics.
BERNARD MAGUBANE

Cliff and Steenhuisen are wrong. Here’s why race matters in South Africa

Both the podcast host and the leader of the Democratic Alliance believe in a toothless non-racialism that ignores the historical foundation of racism and the pain it inflicts in…

  • Andile Zulu
15 min read