Jou Past se Poes
The fallacy of the “white victim” is becoming nauseating. After hundreds of years of white-on-black racism and oppression in South Africa, when anger is expressed against these injustices, self-serving whites who feel uncomfortable when confronted with the truths of South Africa’s racist past call it “hate speech” or “racism”. Steve Hofmeyr bemoans the plight […]
Love and Memory in a Time of Genocide
Even in the hothouse of humanity’s worst evils – in the midst of genocide and chaotic displacement – love can find itself. Gilles* had fled the mass killings in Rwanda to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1994 with his wife, mother and brother. In 1996 they ended up in a refugee camp in […]