Cecil John Rhodes would have loved the ANC’s new education bill – Andrew Kenny
The ANC’s Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill (BELA) carries echoes of Cecil John Rhodes’ colonial ambitions.
The ANC’s Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill (BELA) carries echoes of Cecil John Rhodes’ colonial ambitions.
South Africa’s land reform efforts face continued challenges and complexities – is this the legacy of racism and abuse?
Graham McIntosh responds to UCT Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng’s invitation to share suggestions on the renaming of campus spaces and places.
Journalist Barry Wood’s message is that colonial ghosts still haunt Zimbabwe and its current rulers are unable to exorcise them.
South Africa’s gifted Rian Malan is a peerless writer. And the bestselling author’s contribution to the debate around Helen Zille’s controversial colonialism tweet is up to his world-class standards.
Helen Zille is paying dearly for raising the holy cow of colonialism. Doing so wasn’t in itself wrong, but as Rian Malan explains so brilliantly, for most of South Africa the conversation is premature.
Two SA students at Oxford University, one the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship, are campaigning to have a statue of the long gone colonial icon removed from Oriel College.
While the Guptas have all but captured South Africa and so compromised its leadership, we may take comfort in the fact that this is not the first time this has happened in Southern Africa.
Cape Messenger editor Donwald Pressly says while racist stories in South Africa must be told (and reported), it must be remembered that they are also not the whole story.
The student campaign to remove the statue of Cecil John Rhodes from Oriel College in Oxford has ignited a debate about Britain’s colonial past.