President Zuma on religion and “humanity”
President Zuma claims that humanity is lost when there is no fear of God. In an environment where Helen Zille has to endure a week of criticism for speaking of education refugees, how can Zuma get a free pass on this dangerously intolerant rhetoric?
#SlutWalk and the politics of re-appropriating words
The important message of the SlutWalk campaign – that victim-blaming is not okay, and that women should not be free to behave and dress as they please without fear of certain judgements, raises a deeper issue about the meaning of words and whether they can be “re-appropriated”.
Should Assange be anybody’s “Man of the year”?
On such an emotive issue, and in the context of #Mooreandme, there is scope for justified sensitivity in The Daily Maverick’s award of Man of the Year to Julian Assange.
On rape by deception and state-sanctioned racism
It’s entirely unclear that any relevant deception took place, which brings the legitimacy of a guilty verdict into question. It is of course not commendable that Kashour was unfaithful to his wife, but these deceptions make him typical of a known sort of man, who employs typical sorts of falsehoods in pursuit of seduction. These falsehoods are not right, but they are also not normally a legal issue
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