White South African Claims Racial Persecution
by Latoya Peterson The Associated Press originally broke the news that a white South African, Brandon Carl Huntley, claimed he was being persecuted for the color of his skin. He appealed to Canada and...
View ArticleInvictus (Clint Eastwood, 2009)
by Guest Contributor Geo, originally published at Prometheus Brown Morgan Freeman: the kind of black dude even an old white racist can’t hate. Which is why he was cast to drive Miss Daisy, free a man...
View ArticleWithout a Prayer: Eid for Muslim Women in South Africa
By Guest Contributor Safiyyah Surtee, cross-posted from Muslimah Media Watch Several weeks after Eid al-Fitr, it’s a good time to analyze the recent media embroglio about women and Eid prayers in South...
View ArticleQuoted: Verashni Pillay On Lingering Racism In Cape Town, South Africa
Here’s what should have happened in the 17 years since then: Cape Town, the country’s oldest city with its reputation for being cosmopolitan, ought to have led the way in racial unity. It didn’t...
View ArticleVoices: Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
Front page, The Sowetan newspaper, Soweto, South Africa. Image via Lydia Polgreen. African men want to have their wives and children to live with them where they work, and not be forced into an...
View ArticleQuoted: A South African Muslim Woman’s Memories of Mandela
My daughter outside Mandela’s home in Soweto on Saturday night. From Muslimah Media Watch: I wrote part of this piece when Dr Laury Silvers asked me for a few words she could read in her khutbah at El...
View ArticleVideo: President Obama’s Speech At Nelson Mandela Memorial
It took a man like Madiba to free not just the prisoner, but the jailer as well — (applause) — to show that you must trust others so that they may trust you; to teach that reconciliation is not a...
View ArticleDenying Racism in Cape Town Is About Lack of Empathy
by Guest Contributor Luso Mnthali, originally published at AfriPop I was on radio the other day, trying to explain to Shado Twala, well-known radio and television personality here in South Africa, how...
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