A column for voices that rail against the mainstream. This is a open opinion column and does not necessarily reflect the views of Media for Justice.
White Eroticisation of Black Suffering
By: Gillian Schutte
Pics: from www.thirdworldbunfight.co.za Eroticisation
Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B – an art installation that recreates the horrors that white colonialists wreaked on black body, came under fire when Black communities in
If You can Feed a Dog, Surely, You can Feed a Child
By: Selogadi Ngwanangwato Mampane
The South African charity Feed a Child, recently produced an advertisement juxtaposing the issues of food insecurity many South African children face, with the
Victims of witch-hunts in South Africa are ignored.
By: Damon Leff
A recent MWEB radio advert and the response from City Press demonstrated how human rights abuses resulting from accusations of witchcraft in South Africa are dismissed in favour of profit and misleading headlines. [0]
A is for Apartheid – a response to Mike Van Graan
By Sabelo Kotswana
Pic: Wikipedia
I have to admit, when I read Mike van Graan’s article, I jumped into the list of items he mentioned. By the time I reached E, I was thoroughly confused, not by the contradictions and fallacies in Mike’s article,
The Education ‘Struggle’ – A Struggle for Mediocrity
By Nduduzo Msibi:
“If a man walks a thousand miles through a desert; barefoot, without food nor water, and finally arrives at a destination where he onlyfinds one serving of toxic food and poisonous water, his struggle is admirable and must be applauded; but whether that struggle was actually worthwhile is a different yet all too important question.”
Don’t call me by my slave name.
By Sabelo Kotswana:
I recently visited a doctor in Milnerton. The purpose of my visit was largely to establish contact with a doctor in Cape Town, having recently moved from Johannesburg.
A black Matric certificate is still worth nothing in South Africa
By Siphiwe Sithole:
Pic Courtesy of Wikicommons.
I must congratulate the class of 2013 for achieving what is said to be the highest pass rate of 78.2% since 1994 in South Africa.