• Mphuthumi Ntabeni

If an author writes with empathy, precision and authenticity about experiences foreign to their own, they're a good writer and not a cultural appropriator.

• Desmond Painter

The future of Stellenbosch University does not depend on whether white people there can transcend individual stereotypes and prejudice. It depends on whether they can articulate anti-racism as a genuine political position.

• Indira Govender

The brochures about the town left out the reality for Stellenbosch's black residents: poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Herman Wasserman

On a visit to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city, academic Herman Wasserman gets reminded of home and how people perceive him.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Learning that Radio Freedom, the exiled ANC's radio service, broadcast in Afrikaans, further undermines the idea of the language as belonging to the oppressor.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Feature films produced for the Afrikaans market in South Africa, have many distinctive characteristics, including that they're exclusively white.

• Tom Devriendt

• Dylan Valley

Afrikaans has its roots as a Dutch Creole, spoken by slaves, slave masters and workers of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape. A South African theater company took the play to The Netherlands.

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A new film - and play - want to mainstream Afrikaans' creole origins; a historical reality odds with Afrikaner nationalist visions of language.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The poetry of Ronelda Kamfer sheds light on the still marginalized lives of South Africa’s “brown communities.”

• Herman Wasserman

The curious appeal of a band of celebrity Afrikaner musicians engaging with a quite easily defined past and present.