Blackface is Never Okay
The furore about the blackface incident occurred just after I had read a piece on The Con titled ‘Black’s Not Beautiful’. The writer of that piece argues how the standard of beauty both in the media and in society at large precludes black women from being naturally beautiful. She points to how we see […]
Will The Centre Hold: Julius Malema and the EFF Take A Sho’t Left
In South Africa’s platinum belt, life and politics are as hard as the earth on which they are contested: natural resources and poverty are plentiful, and support for the ruling ANC is in short supply following the brutal events at Marikana. In this article, first published in the current issue of the Chimurenga Chronic, Kwanele […]