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  • December 23, 2020

    THE DA’S WHITE IDENTITY POLITICS

    Mobilise a hyper-specific base around a hyper-specific message that subtly stokes racial tensions, and then gaslight anyone who sees the charade for what it is.

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  • September 20, 2020

    “GET OUT OF JAIL”:WHY MEN ARE SUFFERING AND HOW HARD IT IS TO STOP

    An insecure man practices dominance in his home and at his workplace. His colleagues feel demeaned, and they practise dominance towards their subordinates and in their households. Their children feel demeaned, and they practise dominance towards other children. Violence all the way down.

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  • September 18, 2020

    POPULISM AND POLITICS: IS IT COMING TO SOUTH AFRICA?

    Politics is a game of perception above all, and the image of something wins out over the reality. Therefore, it almost doesn’t matter what the truth is. What only matters is what people believe the truth is.

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  • September 3, 2020

    BOOK REVIEW: “KHWEZI” BY REDI TLHABI

    It was a story that was begging to be told. It was a narrative that required recounting, in all its messy and dark totality.

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  • September 1, 2020

    LET’S TALK ABOUT RAPE

    How does likability influence our perception of a sexual crime?

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  • June 29, 2020

    WE ALL SHOULD BE QUEER

    Some of the ways we have been programmed to think about the world are wrong and we should directly challenge them. Even when we’re termed as “unprofessional” or “angry” or “uptight”, we must move the conversation beyond what society deems as a respectable place to end it. We must advocate for an utopia long and…

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  • June 18, 2020

    SAVE THE ACADEMIC YEAR OR SAVE LIVES?: ANALYSING THE HIGHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT’S RESPONSE TO COVID-19

    What makes institutions think that e-learning, in its current form, is leading to the same outcomes that would be present if we had contact learning all this time?

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  • June 16, 2020

    INTRODUCING INTERSECTIONALITY: 3 STEPS TO BE MORE INCLUSIVE IN YOUR DAILY LIFE

    We aren’t just our race, or our gender, or our social class, or our age, or our sexual orientation, or any other social markers we use to describe ourselves. We’re more than that, and then some. That is what intersectionality seeks to promote.

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  • June 4, 2020

    EZE, WIREDU, AND CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY

    “Any set of ideas that are not examined in its entirety, no matter how noble the initial intention, devolve into the undoing of those who hold those ideas.”

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  • June 2, 2020

    BE RATIONAL: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POLITICS AND EMOTIONS

    Politicians try to sell you the recipe for rationality through the backdoor, while selling themselves as the only shop in town that offers their specific type of rationality.

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