Remember the three white okes caught on camera assaulting a black motorist in Cape Town — clip included if you missed that –? Well, they’ve been nabbed.
In true Noah form, our favourite export tackles racial double-standards in the run-up to the American Superbowl and, well… if Americans were ignoring him before the sure won’t be anymore.
Mr Maimane, you had me (and a lot of white people) fooled. Here we were, feeling happy and content about the new leader of the DA being a nice young “colour blind” man, leading a group of people who thought that you were genuine.
A 15-year old has been arrested by UK investigators following an incident involving alleged racist abuse directed towards Steven Pienaar and Everton teammate Arouna Koné.
So there’s this anti-racism group called the Anti Racism Action Forum(ARAF) – don’t worry, not many people have actually heard of them — who’ve decided to lay racism charges under apartheid against former president FW de Klerk.
If ever you needed your faith in humanity restored, this video will do just that. It’s a gamechanger folks and once you’ve seen it you’ll never think of yourself or others the same way agin.
The threat of Oxford alumni pulling funding from the university sealed the matter once and for all, the statue stays and that’s that.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has come out saying that racism cannot be cured or debated… ok.
The HRC now say they will no longer make public statements about investigations into racism in the country.
According to the ANC youth league, the #FeesMustFall protests are being funded by white supremacists and the league is prepared to go toe-to-toe with student protesters if needs be.
The ANC’s secretary general, Gwede Mantashe, recently said that all South Africans need to work together to build a prosperous SA and ‘defeat racism’
The FW de Klerk Foundation has identified 45 social media posts aimed at inciting violence against white South Africans and subsequently submitted a complain to the SAHRC.
It’s frightening. Because the more we shout: We’re not racist! The more evident it becomes that it really doesn’t matter whether we are or are not racist. Who will judge the judges? No-one’s going to look into our past and see whether we have lived as people free of racism and treated all people with respect. If any South African gets in the way of those on the warpath, it won’t matter whether they have the record of Mother Theresa herself, they will be rounded up and shot by the figurative firing squad anyway.
Students studying at Oxford University who can’t bring themselves to embrace Cecil Rhodes’ legacy “should think about being educated elsewhere,” according to the university’s chancellor, Lord Patten.
A recent study confirms that more than two thirds of young South Africans have a positive outlook for the future of race relations in the country.
Respected South African academic and economic consultant Dr Bheki Shongwe has waded into the controversial Chris Hart “racism” scandal in what appears to be support for the suspended Standard Bank economist.
Trade union Solidarity has said that BEE should be included in the current racial debate in South Africa.
Ntokozo Qwabe has been in the news quite a bit recently, after some Britons asked him to leave the UK and pay back his scholarship, seeing as he’s so intent on bringing down the Rhodes statue at Oxford University.
An employee of the Gauteng department of sports, arts, culture and recreation’s post calling for white people to be “hacked and killed like Jews” has been doing the rounds and folks are going nuts.
Firstly, I have to start by saying that I am proud of my fellow South Africans that have come out in full force to criticise the comments made by Penny Sparrow. It is disturbing to consider that people not only think like this, but consider it fit to publicize these thoughts.
According to the Institute for Race Relations (IRR), recent online scraps are about much more than just racism on social media.
The ANC are investigating options to make acts of racism and promotion of apartheid are criminalised and punishable by imprisonment.
EVERYWHERE (In Other News) – South Africans across the board are taking great strides to distance themselves from serial racists. The mad scramble to get away comes in the wake of remarks made by racists online.
It’s almost as if she doesn’t quite understand how bad her comment really was. Listen as the KZN realtor defends her statement calling black people monkeys.
#PennySparrowMustFall has taken off on Twitter after the estate agent posted a racist rant on Facebook, but she wasn’t the only one. Justin van Vuuren also lashed out at black people enjoying Durban’s beaches over the holiday season… we sh** you not.