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The “White Privilege” Narrative Has No Legs To Stand On Anymore
Level-headed and politically-conscious individuals around the world of all races, but in South Africa in particular, should all be aware of the phenomenon of 'white privilege' by now. White South…
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).…
The False God of Equality
In modern political discourse there’s much talk about the political ‘right’ and the political ‘left’, although there’s very little discussion as to what these concepts fundamentally are. The argument put…
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…
“Don’t Look for Evidence of Wrongdoing” – HuffPost Does it Again!
In the wake of HuffPost SA's company-shattering humiliation last month which forced its Editor in Chief to resign, the publication has shown that the apology it issued was as superficial as the…
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…
Creating ideas vs harnessing White Monopoly Capital
University of Witwatersrand sociology Prof. Roger Southall begins his recent piece on “White Monopoly Capital" (WMC) stating that “many” want to unjustifiably marginalize a notion he maintains is politically “indisputably…
Are white students at the University of Cape Town gutless?
This is an e-mail to a colleague at the University of Cape Town who complained about the absence of ‘whites’ in the forthcoming Students Representative Council (SRC) election – describing them…
Freedom Day: The Price of Eternal Vigilance is Still to be Paid
The American classical liberal and president Thomas Jefferson said that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Freedom is not a fixed state of affairs, and we can be robbed…
The die is cast
'Radical economic transformation' will lead South Africa to bankruptcy. Then comes the IMF and the World Bank crisis loans as well as structural adjustment programs (which are nothing but an…