FOR DECADES those leading the challenge against race labeling, the idea that all individuals occupy distinct race categories defined in law, and backed by pseudo-scientific theories, for example the discredited multi-regionalist theory of human e...
Tag: Apartheid
Replacement theology at heart of Middle East conflict
OUR COUNTRY to its credit has enacted legislation to suppress both apartheid and racism. Proposals by the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) for introduction of a bill which will 'domesticate' the 1973 United Nations International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apa...
Gillian Schutte defends race labeling, toads
In the critically acclaimed film "BlacKkKlansman," directed by Spike Lee, the term "toad" is ingeniously used to refer to a specific type of 'white person'. The historical context of this term presents all sorts of problems but has been decoded by critics as a dramatic technique that 'provides in...
Richard Calland: In the Land of the Blind, the one-eyed man is King – Desiderius Erasmus
IN a Mail & Guardian 'Thought Leader' piece 'Beware the one-eyed Middle East critic' (a rather unfortunate title given the casualties on either side, status of critic Salman Rushdie) Richard Calland myopically opines about what he 'observed' during his year 2000 sojourn in Israel. If all that was...
Kunene: ‘Calling Israel an apartheid state is an insult to South Africans’
US historical relations with South Africa are being mischaracterised by Putin propagandists
RONALD REAGAN'S REPUBLICAN USA may have been a tough nut to deal with during the 80s, but harping on about the perceived slight caused by his party's treatment of Nelson Mandela, whom they Republicans' labelled a 'terrorist', ignores the substantial contribution of many other personalities from w...