NO SOONER had the principal of the posh girls school, Roedean resigned, following a debacle over tennis, where the school at first refused to play Jewish scholars at King David, "because they were Jewish", then issued a series of communiques before resorting to an embarrassing apology, persons su...

RASHID Lombard was a photojournalist and political photographer at South Press. One of the struggle papers whose pages now form the background header of Medialternatives, right above this piece. Boeta Rashid practically took every image that appeared in the weekly paper, pushing out black and whi...

FOR DECADES those leading the challenge against race labeling, the idea that all individuals occupy distinct race categories defined in law, and backed by pseudo-scientific theories, for example the discredited multi-regionalist theory of human evolution, were predominantly by people of color. T...

WHEN THE World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) declared "Apartheid is a heresy" at Ottawa in August 1982, they did so knowing that the general synods of South Africa's Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) had posited there were "skriftuurlike gronde" (scriptural grounds) to support "rasse-ap...

THIS MORNING I awoke to social media by a veteran journalist, reposting the words of a KZN academic about one of the seminal moments of my generation, an event known as Purple Rain. One would expect a journalist whose writing, often on behalf of a major weekly, suggest she is more than capable of...