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Seven tragic days in July: Trying to make (some) sense of South Africa by hearing old themes with new(er) clarity Jeff Rudin The untold tragedies of our days in July 2021 urge us to continue dreaming. This is how we change ourselves and the world that creates us as we, reciprocally, create, sustain and pass it on to everyone else. For us as South Africans, we can begin realising Martin Luther King’s dream by moving way beyond the chimeral securities of race and its racial thinking. © Copyright (c) Daily Maverick , All Rights Reserved   Jeff Rudin works at the Alternative...

Unlike the early contributions – including those in Daily Maverick’s “Age of Anarchy” series of 15 July 2021 – I, with the luxury of thinking time, might be able to suggest layers of complexity difficult to reach by the demands of instant comment. Underlining these commentaries is the need for introspection, distilled into two fundamental questions: how did we get here and what is to be done? The single dominant answer to both is various forms of the failure of Transformation. This is well captured by Andrew Gasnolar: “The lived experience of the vast majority continues to be sha...

Seeing freedom through Dr Sindi’s eyes By Khumisho Moguerane on 26 April 2021 “How now brown cow?” I assume is one of the phrases many British children who are now adults learnt in the early years of their schooling. Sindisiwe Mahamba-Sithole learnt it at a private school in Harare, Zimbabwe, an inheritance of the British system of education.  Sindi and I were students in the biological sciences and living in the same women’s residence, Huis Erika, at the University of Pretoria (UP) in the late 1990s. The phrase was a witty form of greeting between us, intended to make u...