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Blacks Can’t Be Racist: Moeletsi Mbeki’s Artificial Post-Racial Destination In South Africa

Luvuyo Mthimkhulu Dondolo, Ph.D. — Mon, 28 May 2018 10:18:07 +0000

Moeletsi Mbeki’s statement about Julius Malema as ‘a black racist’ – as he pushes for land expropriation without compensation – in an article on the Citizen newspaper website dated 15 /05/2018 is misleading and problematic at various levels: historicity of the land issue, present reality and racialised inequality and poverty which, to some extent, relates [...]

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Racism

Ntshala Mahase — Mon, 28 May 2018 08:55:25 +0000

At the center of misdiagnosing racism has always been, for years, the undermining of the effect and role of macro-economics in its manifestations. The mistake black people often make, according to Dr Umar Johnson, is to relegate racism to a moral issue and that in itself reduces racism into the realm of religion and spirituality. [...]

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Land claim in South Africa (Whose land is RSA land?)

Kgalagadishe Nicholas Mashabela — Mon, 07 May 2018 11:06:46 +0000

A lesson learned too often was that of Jan Van Riebeeck‟s arrival in South Africa in 1652. It was also infused into our minds at the early years in school, that the Khoisan under the leadership of great Authumato met the arrival of the Europeans at the cape, first with hospitality and later with hostility and wars over the right of [...]

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Land redress in South Africa, it’s either now or never

Bruce Magwenzi — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:24:58 +0000

The land question in South Africa has spun around the significant imbalances in access to and rights over land between the rightful owners that is the black majority and the white minority settlers. The underlying foundations of this disparity are ordinarily followed back to the proclamation of the Natives Land Act in June 1913, which [...]

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