William Creasey and media responsibility, redux
The role of the press as an independent and trustworthy purveyor of information and analysis can be blurred if they take on the role of moral watchdog.
William Creasey: Sex-offenders and media responsibility
A friend alerted me to this front-page spread in Friday’s Cape Argus regarding William Creasey. For those unfamiliar with Creasey’s history, he was arrested in 2003 and later convicted for indecently assaulting minors. Following his release on parole in 2009, nothing (that I know of) has been heard of him – at least in relation to [...]
Gendered epithets: Short-term battles vs. long-term wars
Gendered epithets receive less attention than racial epithets, yet they are also used to denigrate an entire section of the human population. Can we consistently ‘reclaim’ a word like ‘slut’, while aiming to eliminate gendered epithets more generally?
The JSC hearings on Mogoeng Mogoeng
The nomination of Mogoeng Mogoeng as Chief Justice (an appointment now confirmed by President Zuma) – in the context of our society’s ills – symbolises a lack of concern for gender equality, poverty, and freedom of sexual preference.
Redistribution of wealth
Apologies for the silence here – I didn’t get around to writing a column for the Daily Maverick this week, and also haven’t blogged, mosly because it’s quite difficult to do these things when bloody agents have entered your home – twice in the space of two weeks – and taken all your stuff. There’s [...]
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