Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille wants Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa to send her evidence of alleged racist incidents which have happened in the city. “The City of Cape Town is taking the lead in South Africa in addressing these difficult issues of race,” she said in an open letter[…]
Cape Town mayor, Patrica de Lille on Saturday marked Human Rights Day by launching the ‘Inclusive City’ campaign. The campaign was aimed at creating public platforms for dialogue to confront what makes some residents feel excluded, while others felt entitled. “We face many challenges to a culture of rights, and[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat- Racism wins. These two words encapsulate the results of Israel’s latest election. Though early exit polls indicated a tie between the two contesting blocs, official election returns give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud a more decisive margin of victory. “Against all odds: a great victory for[…]
Struggle stalwarts Ahmed Kathrada and Laloo Chiba have called on South Africans on the 25th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, to renew the fight against racism. Their statements follow an increasing number of reports of racial and xenophobic incidents, and public debate around matters relating to race over[…]
Attacks on farms, which often result in the murder of farm owners, had nothing to do with the victims’ race, Deputy Agriculture Minister Bheki Cele said on Tuesday. “We are urging everybody, starting with the media and everybody — take the race issue out of farm murders. The people that[…]
A new blog and twitter handle is drawing widespread criticism over its purported depiction of racism and racial profiling on the Facebook pages of several neighborhood watch and community policing forums (CPF). Suburban Fear, portraying itself as the ‘bastion of white middle class fear’, affords citizens the chance to submit[…]
As millions of enthusiastic South Africans celebrate Reconciliation Day, the concept of unity that the day advocates has been severely hampered by a spike in racial incidents throughout 2014. Despite being 20 years into democracy, the country continues to be plagued by cases of racism and profiling. According to one[…]
A man convicted of assaulting and calling a domestic worker a “kaffir” should be sentenced to helping black people with community service, the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court heard on Friday. Andy Hess, for the State, asked Andre van Deventer on the stand how he would feel about working with the[…]
A professor at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) has expressed concern at an alarming increase in racially charged incidents, ranging from physical assaults to the several infamous ‘blackface’ sagas. In a recent court case that has made headlines across the city, a member of the South African National Defence[…]
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