Exciting news! The newly launched SoapBox fashion label will be launched as a separate, independent entity unrelated to the The Soapbox website. This is a separate, unrelated fashion brand, not to be confused with The Soapbox online platform — the one you’re standing on right now.
After several months of fruitful collaborative development, we feel this [...]
A fork in the road: there are now TWO soapboxes
Service delivery protests: the people have had enough
Alex Matthews, editor of The Soapbox, chatted with Steve Crilley of Austrian Radio station FM4 about the service delivery protests currently plaguing South Africa.
You can listen to the interview here.
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F*** FEMINISM… or at least Rhode’s version of it!
BY DEBBIE LIEBENBERG
According to extensive research, feminism is about fighting for equality for women. According to certain activists at Rhodes, Feminism is about fighting. As a journalism student I am tired of having to explain why we are asked to deal with sensitive issues such as rape and sexual harassment. I am tired of being [...]
Celebrating the freedom my forefathers fought for
LARA MOSES says for her, the present is overwhelmed by her multicoloured friends that refuse to see the colour of her sun-kissed skin, the opportunity to receive a better education and freedom to walk down streets that her parents could not. She sees positivity in her future, with so many opportunities waiting to be grabbed.
So you’d like to save the world?
BY PAUL VOSLOO
I have been driving around listening to “If today was your last day” by Nickelback now, non-stop for five days. I am attempting to brainwash myself and I know that if I can just keep this song in my head for the next few years I might just pull off saving the world. [...]
The myth of free education
There is something deeply dishonest about calling something free, mainly because somewhere, some way someone is paying for it. This is no less true in the case of free university education, the brain child of the ANC and the esteemed minister for higher education Dr Blade Nzimande. The aim behind free education is to increase [...]
Student life, Limewire and dirty diamonds
In our latest roundup of fresh opinion, Debbie Liebenberg takes a trip down memory lane with her hilarious memories of life as a UCT student. Graham Pote takes a look at the struggling South African music industry and urges consumers to buy it instead of nicking it off Limewire.
Jake turns to the situation in Iran [...]
Massacres, forced labour haunt Zimbabwe diamond fields
BY ALEX MATTHEWS
Military control over diamond mining in Zimbabwe’s eastern Marange district has resulted in a brutal mix of massacres, forced labour, beatings and rape.
This is according to a comprehensive report released last week by Human Rights Watch (HRW), the New York-based rights NGO, which interviewed over 100 people in the region in February 2009.
Mining [...]
A memoir: life as a UCT student
BY DEBBIE LIEBENBERG
What’s the difference between a UCT student and the homeless beggar down the road? NOTHING!!! Think about it, we sit on the stairs in the sun for the majority of our day, R1 coins are like gold, we admire people who have caught a pigeon and shoes are rare! Ladies, gentlemen and students [...]
Music makes us come together — now buy it, please
BY GRAHAM ROBERT POTE
Listen to a plain djembe drumbeat, and your heart beats faster, almost instinctively, as if to say your heart runs to a beat. Music is so very much a part of man, but then can someone please explain why bands are struggling in South Africa? In our country, when people are angry, [...]
