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Opposing Decolonization Means White Supremacy? Hold Your Horses, Social Justice Warriors!
"Social justice writer and blogger" Luke Waltham recently wrote an article for The Daily Vox titled, "Those who are against decolonisation are white supremacists". The average reader whose mind is…
Labeling Opponents of Decolonisation ‘White Supremacists’ Amounts to Little More Than Kafkatrapping
In his recent piece on The Daily Vox entitled “Those Who Are Against Decolonisation Are White Supremacists” Luke Waltham, whose disclaimer says that he is a social justice writer, rejects…
#MenAreTrash and the Oppressive (Wo)man-Babies
I have just read a public statement by PASMA (Pan-African Student Movement of Azania) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The statement announces the suspension of one of its…
The youth as drivers of educational transformation in South Africa
This is a response to an article by Taryn Isaacs De Vega, Taking the baton from the 1976 generation, Published in The Journalist “Does our research further emphasises the South African…
On Salvation, Colonisation and Machiavelli
My first year of study at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1964 was as a part time Bachelor of Commerce student. One of our courses was English Literature (ordinary).…
Listen to the ANC Youth League at your own peril
It is said that leaders need to be measured on the premise of their vision, ability to create strong organisations, and their tenacity to nurture trust and understanding towards a…
Getting decolonisation right
This article is in response to: African universities must take a critical view of knowledge and how it’s made Some recent conservation biology left: Hermenegildo Matimele, Mozambique; Wataru Tokura, Japan; Dr Susan…
Technology is not enough to solve our education crisis
This article is a response to: To stay in the game universities need to work with tech companies The author starts off by linking “higher and professional education”. They are, in both…
Decolonizing UCT: ‘trick or treat’ and ‘sticks and stones’
History For more than two years, the University of Cape Town (UCT) has lost direction and momentum in what used to be referred to as adaptive “transformation” of staff and…
Liberty Needs To Reclaim Compassion
During my years attending an all-boys school, many of my previous and currently-disproved political convictions were formed. As an adolescent, I watched the series The West Wing in awe of…