The Cape Colony
The campaign to separate South Africa's Western Cape from the rest of the country is not only a symptom of white privilege, but also of the myth that the province is better run.
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John Brown had a sick beard
Grégory Pierrot’s searing analysis of the deep roots of white supremacy and black exploitation in hipster culture. He also offers a way out of this.
The specter of Mannetjies Roux
An encounter on a cross continental flight with white South African men and their ways, by Robina Marks, a black woman and South Africa’s ambassador in Benin.
The forgotten history of migration to Africa
While World War II was ravaging Europe, thousands of Polish people found a safe haven in British colonial Africa.
Challenging whiteness in South Africa
White South Africans rarely look in the proverbial mirror to reflect on where they come from and how those histories shape their current realities.
Pay me what you owe me
Brooklyn, Biggie Smalls and Hari Kunzru’s White Tears.
Taking white privilege abroad
“Ex-South Africans” are a white, right-wing strain of South Africa’s diaspora that identify with and longs for the South Africa of apartheid.
Scenario Planning for White South Africa
Scenario planning is something of a cottage industry in South Africa and was particularly popular during
Weekend in Stellenbosch
The writer went for a visit and found Stellenbosch, a Western Cape town that is home to one of South Africa's universities, strange, interesting and also very sad.
Where is Grahamstown?
On 10 October 2013, a certain segment of white South Africans left their children with the
There is no liberal tradition in South Africa
Running like a blue thread through the history of South African liberalism is a readiness to defer to white prejudices that has been consistently repaid in the coin of unambiguous rejection.
The story of a lost white boy
The story of Happy Sindane, the lost white boy, who put a lie to South Africa's rainbow shibboleths.
A certain Israeli psyche
Israel's Interior Minister, Eli Yishai basically says Israel was a white country in a debate about African immigrants and refugees.
The Afrikaans movie template
The creatives at South African satellite TV channel Kyknet — which also produces movies now —
"You're a South African, what's your story?"
New Zealand is often sold to prospective (mostly white) South African immigrants as “South Africa 30
The Dutch Disease
What is it with Dutch cultural elites and South Africa? The last time I travelled two
A ticking time bomb
Will the slow pace of land reform in South Africa, be the undoing of the ANC government?
White History Month
Writer and journalist Gary Younge in a 2007 column in “The Nation”–that’s still worth repeating–on Black
Learning Zulu
The author, a German journalist new to South Africa, writes about her first impressions and experiences, especially with local whites; so different from anything she knew or experienced before.
Africa on Film: Black Diamonds
Black Diamonds is a recently released short documentary by Dutch filmmaker, Saska Vredeveld (view the film