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We will never survive as a nation or as humans if we put up racial barriers to isolate ourselves from one another, economically, socially and politically.
BLACKS

Whites should stop poking the lion

Dismissing black people’s pain is dehumanising

  • Kyle Raman
2 min read
TRESemmé’s parent company, Unilever, sells a range of skin-lightening creams and has a history of marketing them in an aggressive manner. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week)
CLICKS

What’s wrong with the TRESemmé advert?

Is ‘fine and flat’ a compliment or an insult? Depends who you ask…

  • Terence Grant
3 min read
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema (C) addresses his supporters during a picket outside Clicks Store, a retail-led food and healthcare group which is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), at the Mall of the North in Polokwane, on September 7, 2020. (Photo by Phill Magakoe/AFP)
CLICKS

McKaiser needs to challenge his inner racist too

COMMENT: Clicks – or some of its employees – demonstrated culpa, not dolus

  • Glen Heneck
5 min read
Heads up: Consumer boycotts, such as the Economic Freedom Fighters’ protests outside Clicks stores this week, are as powerful a weapon as they were in the 1980s, and can become as violent. (Photo: Luca Sola/AFP)
BOYCOTT

Paddy Harper: Anti-racism is the mane thing

What we want: Ramaphosa to cough up a hairball, racists in hair shirts and consumer boycotts that don’t turn hairy

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
ADVERTISING

Eusebius McKaiser: Arguments to challenge your inner racist

These three common responses to racism must be deconstructed until something … clicks

  • Eusebius McKaiser
8 min read