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In an episode of The Burning Platform podcast, the host, Gareth Cliff asserted that racism was not a priority in the 1 November local elections and claimed that no one was interested in identity politics.
BERNARD MAGUBANE

Cliff and Steenhuisen are wrong. Here’s why race matters in South Africa

Both the podcast host and the leader of the Democratic Alliance believe in a toothless non-racialism that ignores the historical foundation of racism and the pain it inflicts in…

  • Andile Zulu
15 min read
Writer Sol Plaatje ‘constantly exploded the image created of him’. (SOAS Archives, University of London)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
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Sol Plaatje and the antinomies of writing against ‘South Africa’

The renowned author’s foundational anti-colonial work deserves more than a dogmatic reading

  • V Njabulo Zwane
5 min read
(John McCann)
A HISTORY OF NEGRO REVOLT

A hundred years on and I see you, ICU

The Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union’s contribution to freedom is mostly unsung

  • Richard Pithouse
9 min read