Gangsters as people’s champions
In a country like South Africa where government trust is low, gangsters and criminals who provide assistance to their communities are seen as the people’s champions.
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Savo Heleta
Dr. Savo Heleta works at Durban University of Technology.
Not mere intellectual dissenters
Why is South Africa’s draft Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill contradicting the constitution and proposing to shield academics and scholars who propagate racist and bigoted ideas?
How many immigrants live in South Africa?
The UN and South Africa’s Statistics Service are exaggerating immigrant numbers and playing with people’s lives in South Africa.
Xenophobia and party politics in South Africa
All political parties in South Africa try to mobilize voters based on their and voters’ xenophobia and they’re outdoing each other with an election scheduled for 2019.
White privilege and hypocrisy in South Africa
Many white South Africans are doing all they can to maintain racial inequalities and white privilege. It’s a recipe for disaster. Hopefully they get it before it’s too late.
The Third World Quarterly debacle
For those not familiar with academic publishing, prominent peer-reviewed journals are not expected to publish garbage promoting colonialism.