Its aim is to provide a platform for thought-provoking opinion from writers, commentators, intellectuals and opinion makers across various industries and political spectrums. Thought Leader is a ...

Kaulirol’iqinga Siwavun’amazimba Hoha Mrs M. Maxeke Mti omde orara wakulo Deborah Bhikica emva kwabavumi Mrs M. Maxeke Ze nengcwaba lamagqwira Libe ndaweninye (Ho, Mrs M. Maxeke, Tall, bitter tree, ...

One clue to understanding the difference between modernism, postmodernism and poststructuralism lies in the ancient “quarrel” between Parmenides and Heraclitus. Parmenides argued that only being is, ...

It could be argued that the conceptualisation of gender equality is subjective and perhaps even relative because of the varied perspectives from which it is understood. For this reason, the debate ...

Ebrahim Harvey is a political writer and commentator, former Mail & Guardian columnist, former Cosatu unionist and final-year PhD candidate in sociology at Wits University ...

South Africa is renowned for its revisionism, and numbing down days of historical significance into occasions that resemble festivity, rather than their revolutionary origin and essence. African ...

As citizens, we want to believe there are laws in place that will protect us. In the context of a country with a Constitution that’s been lauded the world over as one of the most progressive of its ...

Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping with Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, in Washington. (Photo by Howard Sachs/Getty Images) China’s long, unfinished 20th century and its global ...

Unlike the ANC, the core values of the freedom fighters do not change with each leader it elects (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images) The EFF — an ideological critique in four parts ...

In ‘Truth and power’ (1980), Michel Foucault elaborates on different kinds of intellectuals – the ‘universal’ and ‘specific’ intellectual, respectively – in the context of the question regarding the ...

Andile Zulu is a political essayist who runs the Born Free Blues blog.

The success of the genre, especially that of boy band BTS, subverts the archaic notion that only English-language music can have worldwide appeal and that celebrities need to appear on pedestals ...