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MISUNDERSTANDING SELF-IMMOLATION IN SENEGAL
TAMBA JEAN-MATHEW III In Senegal, renowned for being peaceful and stable, a dangerous trend of self-incineration has surfaced. This year, the previously unthinkable practice of self-immolation has...
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LOOK, A BLACK PIET!
MARTHE VAN DER WOLF Ever year around the 5th December, Holland celebrates the enslavement of Aricans as part of a racist Christmas tradition and ceremony. However, trying to tell a Dutch person why...
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IMAGINE AN ALCOHOL FREE YOUTH DAY
SIZWE HLONGWANE Alcohol Free Youth Day campaign was initiated in May 2011 as a response to the increasing negative publicity about the youth abusing alcohol on June 16, a public holiday where South...
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I BENEFITED FROM APARTHEID
ASIA MASILELE “Whites did benefit from apartheid and as long as we own our second properties on the coast, as long as we occupy the majority of top positions in business, have our own alternative to...
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APARTHEID NEVER DIED IN SOUTH AFRICA
JOHN PILGER The murder of 34 miners by the South African police, most of them shot in the back, puts paid to the illusion of post-apartheid democracy and illuminates the new worldwide apartheid of...
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FALSE PROPHETS: THE CRIPPLING OF RASTAFARI
THEKISO LEFIFI So in reality, how conscious is an intoxicated brother? How does a person who can’t communicate, educate a nation? In my humble trotting across the landscape of the motherland, I come...
View ArticleHOW DIFFERENT ARE WE?: AN ANALYSIS OF A XENOPHOBIC SOUTH AFRICA
REBECCA PHIYEGA Sometimes I wonder to myself that as humans are we that different? Do we find our commonality in the differences we have or do the differences make us more common than we ever thought...
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FEAR OF A BLEAK PLANET
MENZI MASEKO “In fear and trembling, I think I would fulfil my life Only if I brought myself to make a public confession Revealing a sham, my own and of my epoch: We were permitted to shriek in the...
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THE RASTA UNITED FRONT MEETS IN DURBAN
PROUDLY AFRIKAN – The Rasta United Front is travelling the length and breath of the country as a collective of Cultural Revolutionaries dedicated to making an original and lasting contribution to the...
View ArticleWHY CONSUMERS ARE FED UP WITH ADVERTS OF BLACK PEOPLE DANCING
BULELWA DAYIMANI – Consumers have had enough of adverts with black people always being portrayed as someone who doesn’t take anything seriously Stereotyping, a lack of understanding of the black market...
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