Maiming, killing and dying for “culture”
It is only when you get to choose what your “culture” is – and not have it forced upon you – that it becomes remotely respectable.
The disappeared ANCWL post on Zapiro
Earlier today, the ANC Women’s League released a rant about the latest Zapiro cartoon, which I won’t reproduce here for fear of being shot. But the rant has now disappeared from their website, although you can read Jackson Mthembu’s (typically reflective) opinion if you like. I happened to have a browser page open to the rant, and have pasted it below.
Did the #Zumaspear bullies win?
The choice to never have displayed Zuma’s Spear is easy to understand. But to remove it could be sensitivity (which is often good), or it could represent another win for the hypersensitive – with the latter being something which should cause us regret and concern.
Zuma’s Spear and egalitarian anti-racism
Exactly which categories of human does identity politics grant special protection to, and on what grounds is this discrimination justified?
Zuma’s Spear and the distractions of “culture”
It’s not necessarily Zuma’s “blackness” or “Zulu-ness” that motivates the mockery – it’s also quite plausibly (for some) the fact that they perceive him as a philanderer, who happens to be our President (and further, happens to be black and Zulu).
Ritual sacrifice and the ANC centenary
The ANC’s centenary celebrations were marked by another instance of an uncomfortable collision of cultural norms in the ritual slaughter of a bull. But is cultural habit a sufficient justification for such rituals?
Defaming President Jacob Zuma
If you’re doing the whole Christmas thing, I can think of no better gift for Zuma – and your fellow South Africans – than that you keep on trying to remind our leaders that there are real problems to address, and that some of the battles Zuma and others fight in court don’t merit anyone’s attention.
SA Elections: The DA’s “Stop Zuma” campaign
The DA’s “Stop Zuma” campaign represents an “own goal”, and will only alienate the undecideds in South Africa’s 2009 election.
