[This blog post is one in a series of personal viewpoints of Warehouse Staff members on the Unite Against Corruption March] Colonialism and Apartheid were two of the most extreme forms of institutionalised corruption that the world has ever seen. For the benefit of a small minority of people, corruption was entrenched into every department …
I would like to start by asking a further question. What is it that we want to achieve by saying sorry? Do we want to achieve healing, closure, forgiveness and reconciliation for ourselves? Or do we want healing, closure, forgiveness and reconciliation to happen in the lives of those who have been harmed? I think …
#‎Blackface, a 21st birthday celebration where two University of Pretoria students dressed up like domestic workers and painted their faces and arms black is not the first racism case to come from a formally Afrikaans university. The South African Human Rights Commission reports that out of the 500 reports of racism it received in the …