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The statue of Cecil Rhodes waits to be removed from University of Cape Town on April 9, 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa. The statue of British colonialist Cecil John Rhodes was removed from the University of Cape Town as a result of a month long protest by students citing the statue “great symbolic power” which glorified someone “who exploited black labour and stole land from indigenous people”. (Charlie Shoemaker/Getty Images)
CAPE TOWN

Pressure to remove colonial relics grows

This week, the Black People’s National Crisis Committee (BPNCC) said it would intensify protest if activists are not listened to.

  • Lester Kiewit
3 min read
‘They say: ‘No, just make us the beef and the spinach and the pap.’ But I say: No, you have to get some veggies also.’ (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
COOKING

Slice of life: I cook for men looking for jobs

‘I prefer to cook for these people for free than to sell the food even. I enjoy it because we use the big, big pots’

  • Sarah Smit
2 min read
LOUIS BOTHA

EFF and ANC at odds over ‘offensive’ statues

The EFF has said the ruling party is too accommodating in its approach to the removal of symbols that glorify colonisation and apartheid.

  • Thuletho Zwane
4 min read
Julius Malema says the statue of Louis Botha outside Parliament ‘represents nothing of what a democratic South Africa stands for’. (David Harrison, M&G)
ANC 1

EFF and ANC at odds over ‘offensive’ statues

The EFF has said the ruling party is too accommodating in its approach to the removal of symbols that glorify colonisation and apartheid.

  • Thuletho Zwane
4 min read
EMPIRE BOTHA

Black kids don’t cry

Casualty smells like pee and disinfectant. Red lino floors, neon lights, some of them flickering. Daniel is taken behind a powder-blue curtain, brown in some places. He tries to…

  • Lev David
4 min read