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Tuesday, 04 October 2022 15:22
Kom 'Coloured Influencers' Goed Met Mekaar Oor Die Weg?
Mavis Vannie Lavis
Ek kry die laaste ruk baie fanmail om te vra of ‘coloured influencers’ goed met mekaar or die weg kom. Dan was ek ook gevra oor hoe groot die kompetisie…
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In die 1980s was die lewe op die Cape Flats baie lekker. Daar was Klopse practice, tamboernooientjies, padhokkie en selfs voor die TV het almal gewag vir Santa Barbara en…
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Tuesday, 08 February 2022 18:35
Die Broosheid van Witwees: Het Witmense Na 1994 Werklik Verander?
Mavis Vannie Lavis
Mavis Vannie Lavis deel 'n interresante en verfrissende mooi voorgelegde perspektief oor ontwikkelinge in rasseverhoudings in Suid-Afrika. Ongelukkig het dit die tragiese voorval van die moord op klein Jerobiojin van Wyk…
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South Africa’s high unemployment rate, poverty, social economic exclusion, spatial challenges marginalising the poor, corruption, racial divisions, has finally caught up with us. These factors, despite many of them being…
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Monday, 12 April 2021 21:08
Why Ougat: the Memoir of Shana Fife is a Must-Read
Written by Ryan Swano
Unsettlingly honest and brutally blunt, Ougat is Shana Fife’s story of survival: of surviving the social conditioning of her Cape Flats community, of surviving sexual violence and depression, and of…
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Monday, 05 April 2021 09:27
Die skandes van UCT en my Sub A poppehuisie-experience!
Mavis Vannie Lavis
Gisteraand chat ek te heerlik met ‘n vriendin Deidré, met wie ek in die 80s grootgeword het. In 1983, toe ons in Sub A was, het ek die eerste keer…
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Saturday, 21 November 2020 23:56
Having a Business, a Public Persona and NO LIFE
Written by Ryan Swano
I haven't really slept last night... Since early evening, as I was doing my laundry on a clear warm Friday evening that was stunningly perfect for end-of-week sundowners which, mind…
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#JusticeForNathanielJulies and other Coloured Boys With Targets On Their Backs With the killing of 16 year-old Nathaniel Julies at the hands of police officers, regular Bruinou.com content contributor Angelo C…
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Monday, 20 April 2020 18:56
The Word ‘Boesman’ Falls Into The Same Category As The K-word And Must Be Outlawed
Angelo C Louw
The Word ‘Boesman’ Falls Into The Same Category As The K-word And Must Be Outlawed. The recent racist rant by the ANC mayor of Welkom demonstrates the literal danger…
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Wednesday, 05 February 2020 10:33
His Legacy Will Live On - Farewell Reverend Leonard Maart
Kiersten Dunbar Chace
I write with tears. Today, South Africa has lost a great spiritual leader and his family and loved ones have lost a strong loving force in their lives. Reverend Leonard…
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So we're doing Tweede Nuwejaar tomorrow, the 4th of JanuaryThe sentence it's own irony Cause it's TWEEDE Nuwejaar for a reason you know Check your his- and her-story But keep…
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I am convinced that Reconciliation Day in our current understanding is not contributing to making South Africa a better place for all of us who live in it. It is…
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Tuesday, 17 December 2019 07:41
A Visitor's Guide To The Real Cape Town - Navigating Cape Flats Lingo
Yulanda Anne Gombard
It's officially the start of our festive holiday season and there will naturally be an influx of visitors to our beautiful city - visitors from other provinces in our country,…
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Send in the Army for what, whom and why???? Is the most appropriate army being sent? We are traumatised of years and years of abuse, violence, crime and…
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Sunday, 07 July 2019 17:13
Call for Summit as Homeless are Targeted by City of Cape Town
Lorenzo Davids
The Homeless targeted - for what they don’t have. Imagine being homeless and jobless with your family in a country which guarantees you, through its Constitution, the right to dignity,…
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The problem with them (the coloureds) seeing themselves in isolation to the broader black struggles for economic equity and equality through financial restitution and land repatriation is the following:
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