I have a couple of friends that like to remember what they refer to as the good old Zimbabwe days. Be it when they were in primary or secondary school. Or undertaking one or the other state-sponsored tertiary education. They talk of getting milk at school, eating well, getting student payouts/loans and how everyone was…
USA president Donald Trump recently issued an executive order about South African domestic politics. In it he was basically protecting white South Africans and in particular those of Afrikaner (Dutch) origin. This was after one of his infamous and closest political advisors, Elon Musk had warned via his social media platform X, that there would be…
As an African you will regularly reflect on your being, your othered ‘blackness’ and also your material standing in a now highly globalized perception of what can be the ‘good life’. And in all of its mimicry of the colonial legacy of global north societies. Or if we were to be a little bit more…
