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South Africa faces a dire financial situation with persistent budget deficits and increasing debt. The government must borrow heavily, and debt is projected to reach 77% of GDP by 2025/26...
At a time when the already high levels of sexual assault, rape and homophobia on campus are getting worse by the day, we straight men need to have an honest conversation.
The Daily Vox The Camissa Museum challenges the colonial and Apartheid narratives of those classified as “Coloured” and explores the true history of the establishment of the port of Cape Town. Ling Shepherd looks at how the museum challenges what we have been taught, and how to always interrogate history. The Castle of Good Hope is a bastion fort built in 17th century colonial Cape Town. The Camissa museum is hoping to take visitors on a journey through a decolonised history of Cape identities. After three years of planning and decades of work the museum was finally able to ...
AMBASSADOR Ruby Marks used the occasion to launch her book on identities, âTell Us Our Story Grandmaâ. In the picture, from left to right, are Dutch consul general Sebastiaan Messerschmidt, ambassador Ruby Marks, Minister Nosiviwe Noluthando Mapisa-Nqakula and Castle control board chief executive Calvyn Gilfellan. Picture: Mwangi Githahu Museum offering decolonised history on Cape heritage launched at Castle of Good Hope Share Cape Town - A new museum has opened its doors at the Castle of Good Hope and is hoping to take South Africans on a journey through a decolonised history of Ca...
YACOOB ABBA OMAR | Why and how we should talk about race We need a framework drawn from a constellation of contributions 06 April 2021 - 20:13 By Yacoob Abba Omar PUZZLING The author believes there are several dimensions to the issue of race and privilege. Image: 123RF/LIGHTWISE This article is not about former Wits vice-chancellor Adam Habib and the use of the “N-word”. Pan-African thinking pioneer WEB du Bois declared in 1900 that “the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the colour line”. Twelve decades later the problem persists, and will...