The US/EU-Backed NGO Cluster Opposing March and March
The Jacinta rumour exposes a larger hypocrisy: while March and March is smeared through one US-linked exchange programme, the NGO/legal bloc opposing it is openly sustained by US, EU, Canadian and transnational donor money, with documented NED-linked routes into labour, business and civil-society formations. This is not sovereign civil society. It is a foreign-funded discourse machine policing Black citizen anger.
The DA’s Blue Icons: Liberal Masculinity, Political Theology and the Americanisation of South African Propaganda
The side-by-side image reveals the DA’s campaign aesthetic as secular iconography: the blue-lit male leader haloed by party branding, mirroring the visual grammar of religious art. It is American-style political spectacle, turning management, masculinity and market order into a theatre of salvation.
The Green Apache: A 1976 Township Tale
I stopped outside my aunt’s house and jumped out and ran to the door. When I looked back, I could not believe what I saw. The others were frozen in the car. Nobody moved. I was the only one who had jumped out.
That made it obvious that I had been driving.
The Dangers of Comfortable Platforms: (How the Mail & Guardian placed arms-capital Zionism beside Winnie Mandela, Youth Day and Gaza)
The Mail & Guardian’s decision to publish Ivor Ichikowitz, founder of Paramount Group, one of Africa’s most prominent private defence and aerospace companies, as a moral voice on Winnie Mandela during its 1976/Youth Day period was an insult delivered inside a sacred commemorative space. Youth Day belongs to 1976, to Black children and young people who faced police bullets, detention, torture, exile, prison and the long machinery of the apartheid state.
How Many Lies Can the JSC Ignore?
Mbenenge’s review asks how the JSC could elevate the case to gross misconduct after the Tribunal rejected key allegations and found parts of Mengo’s evidence to be false under oath.
Decolonising Ubuntu: Beyond White Reductionism and Enlightenment Fragmentation.
Ubuntu remains imperishable because it names what European modernity never managed to destroy. It names the relational structure of life. The human being does not begin as an isolated unit who later enters society. The human being arrives already held by language, food, touch, protection, memory and recognition.
Beyond Western Solipsism: Reading Kim Heller Book: Through African Existential Thought
The Africanists who advanced the Africanist Manifesto through Sharpeville/Langa were suppressed through banning orders. Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement, who picked up where the Africanists left off, were met with a killing and a subsequent ideological pivot: the enemy became not the white power structure but a small white capitalist class, reframed through the language of “scientific socialism.” Liberal non-racialism followed—a non-racialism so allergic to naming anti-blackness that it became a cover for the very structure it claimed to oppose.
Europe Digs Up Fascism for Ukraine’s War Narrative
The dead do not return empty-handed when states dig them up for political use. They return carrying the ideologies, alliances and crimes attached to their names. Melnyk’s reburial tells us something about Ukraine’s war narrative, but it tells us more about Europe. It shows a civilisation willing to disturb the graves of fascism when those bones serve its anti-Russian war.
The Sheer Brilliance of Iran’s Three-Tiered Governance Structure
The Islamic Republic’s strength lies in the way revolutionary legitimacy, administrative capacity and strategic defence reinforce one another. It built a state form that treats sovereignty as requiring defence through law, ideology, administration, intelligence, food systems, trade routes, security institutions and civilisational confidence. From this vantage point, sanctions look less like principled diplomacy than failed siege warfare.
Why Africa Has Big Love for Russia
The Soviet Union stood with liberation movements when the West was still calling our freedom fighters terrorists and communists. The West was selling weapons, protecting settler regimes, shaking hands with apartheid’s friends and explaining oppression through “stability”. Russia did not have to invent solidarity yesterday. There is a reason old comrades still speak about Moscow with warmth. There is a reason liberation history remembers who opened doors when others locked them.