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A life in motion: A review of ‘Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing’
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If it’s hope we want, understanding world history is a good place to start
Accepting the fact of suffering can be the first step in finding our way out of it, even in SA 12 February 2023 - 00:03 A historian once said of humans: “We don’t live long enough to learn from the past.” Even more so if the past is denied, often with tragic, then farcical consequences. In Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Promise, Manie Swart promises his dying wife he will give their black domestic worker, Salome, the house in which she lives.
OP-ED: Seven tragic days in July: Trying to make (some) sense of South Africa by hearing old themes with new(er) clarity
An arrested protester sits inside a shop that was looted following sporadic looting at Letshoho mall in Katlehong.Photo:Felix Dlangamandla/Daily Maverick Jeff Rudin works at the Alternative Information & Development Centre. “First, there is the good news. The storm will subside. We will reset as if nothing happened. That is the bad news. We will move on and not deal with the underlying causes of this massive stress test of our democratic state.
Raising the spectre of pangas and shotguns
White folk and their animals. For many black South Africans, it is a strange yet fascinating relationship. I listened once as a white mother at my children’s school described how her dog was battling with “separation anxiety”. As a practising psychotherapist, I couldn’t help but feel intrigued that a canine could metabolise the traumas of its early years through regular visits to the pet behaviourist.
OPINION | Nattrass research: We are black – and not offended | News24
A general view of the University of Cape Town. Gallo Images Two black academics respond to the criticism of research conducted by UCT Professor Nicoli Nattrass, saying the UCT executive and the Black Academic Caucus do not speak on their behalf. Universities, a leading South African academic once noted, are places of discomfort, testing boundaries, posing uncomfortable questions, challenging received truths.
Monetary imperialism in Francophone Africa
So I was wondering… if you could tell us a bit about your personal, educational, and political background. So your recent work, and your recent co-authored book, focuses primarily, as you said, on the present history of the neocolonial monetary system that is the CFA franc, in Francophone Africa. And really, in this conversation, I want us to dive into that.
Postcolonial theory and the strong arm of identity
I have always been mistrustful of the rhetoric on decolonization.Our difficulty deciding its meaning not only consigns it to a realm of needless obscurity but also frustrates our cause, which I understand to be the reimagining of the entire knowledge-making apparatus in the pursuit of a just, humane and equitable social order.
Op-Ed: The recolonising danger of decolonising psychology
Amid the chaos in our higher education system, protesting students have been unswerving in their demand for a “decolonised” education. With universities around the country forced into the uncertain task of reimagining their curricula, departments of psychology have also started to grapple with the question of how to “decolonise” their discipline. By WAHBIE LONG.
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