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Friday, 04 March 2016 15:19
Well Intended Advert about Violence on The Cape Flats Misses the Mark
Written by Ryan Swano
A new well-ntended cleverly produced 30 second commercial has been created to raise awareness of kids on the Cape Flats who have to live in fear of violence every day…
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Wednesday, 17 February 2016 22:02
Black Humanity in an Anti-Black Society
Written by Lindsay Maasdorp
With the current upsurge in campus protests and a wave of condemnation on social media and other public platforms for the destruction caused by students at UCT, this article which…
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In his view of racism from a somewhat unconventional vantage point, Seth Randall dissects what he calls the anatomy of racism. Contrary to our initial thoughts of it being yet…
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Tuesday, 02 February 2016 20:10
Coloured people constantly reduced to tired stereotypes
Written by Danielle Bowler - EWN
"The function of these stereotypes is that they masquerade as ‘natural’ and inherent aspects of being coloured..." Coloured people constantly reduced to tired stereotypes by Danielle Bowler In the darkened…
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Wednesday, 27 January 2016 11:11
Indian today, coloured tomorrow and black the next – my racial identity crisis
Written by Kamaria Balkisson - LiveMag
For first-generation mixed-race South Africans, navigating the minefield of technically being deemed to Coloured and being seen as somewhere in-between or either only specifically one of the identities of your…
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Nicola Codner aka NikkiLou is a British intersectional feminist, a therapist and a writer sharing her experiences of being someone of mixed-race origins. Though many of the experiences of mixed-race…
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Amid all the social media uproar around race relations in South Africa, Soli Philander in his usual witty way comes to an interesting conclusion about the reactions people have towards…
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Sunday, 03 January 2016 21:16
How I, as a young coloured woman, feel connected to Saartjie Baartman
Written by Deidré Jantjies - LiveMag.co.za
We love the manner in which Deidré Jantjies raises the point that we have been conditioned to have Eurocentric views of our body shapes and facial features. In the article…
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Monday, 30 November 2015 22:26
Can’t separate language from people who produced it
Written by Jitsvinger
One of South Africa's foremost proponents of Afrikaans Hip Hop, and perhaps more specifically the Afrikaaps vernacular, Jitsvinger expresses his views on how the cultural suppression of Afrikaaps affects the…
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Thursday, 30 July 2015 03:31
Who says Bursaries are not for us? Go get yours.
Written by Josie Martin
Yes, you or your child can further your studies and get that degree or diploma and best of all is that you could qualify for a bursary. So easily we…
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In his article below, Mark Peach shares his opinion that there is not much if any recorded history of people classified as Coloured and as such, we collectively do not…
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Saturday, 10 January 2015 15:40
SA's first people demand their place in the sun
Written by Dennis Cruywagen
Once upon a time, according to the generally accepted narrative of our history, different groups of tribes started arriving in the southern part of Africa from far beyond the Limpopo…
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Monday, 05 January 2015 17:28
Sunette vs Vinette and Our Real Fear of Violent Crime
Written by Ryan Swano
What is most disturbing for me about the much publicised "racial spat" between Vinette Ebrahim and Sunette Bridges is not the fact that it even exists but all of the…
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Wednesday, 12 November 2014 17:34
Homelessness & Hunger is Everybody's Problem
Written by Ryan Swano
Social Experiment Videos like the one further below are becoming quite common nowadays and many of them are staged but whether this one was staged or not, does not change…
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I've always wondered why nuns' clothing are called habits. Besides that they wear the same kind of clothing each and every day, and we recognise them by this, nuns also…
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There are many reasons why backyard dwellers seem to be neglected by the system and even by some organisations that deal with the issue of housing. Back yard dwellings, though…
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