Ethnic nationalism breeds racism and causes divisions

BY HLANGANANI GUMBI
E.TV’s 3rd Degree show and post debate on 3rd Degree Plus on 25th May 2010 centred around racism and left one deeply saddened at the entrenched racism in our society. The show covered a number of incidents from the effects of the AWB Leader Eugene Terre’blanche murder, to the both previous and recent [...]

Semenya: it’s about gender not race

BY KHAYA DLANGA
Let me start off by saying that Caster Semenya is a chick until proven a dude. Oh, hang on, she has been proven to be a chick by her parents, her teachers and her friends, mind you.
The accusations of racism levelled at the IAAF have been a bit excessive. But one can understand [...]

Holding South Africa back

SL writes that apartheid dinosaurs – who hanker after the “old days” and see differences in pigment and diversity of culture as dangerous – are the biggest threat to South Africa’s true transformation. This is because of the sheer number of them that still exist, the intensity of their hatred and their refusal to change.

Why class is more important than race

Cilliers Brink advocates a paradigm-shift from that of racial competition to social cohesion, arguing that a cohesion-centred paradigm in our society, rooted in Constitutional values, can achieve so more to channel the human and financial resources of the wealthy in aid of the poor than the ANC (and COPE) model of a racial tug-of-war.

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