From Russia With Love: How Criticising Malema Turned Me Into a Supposed Kremlin Asset
I questioned whether Julius Malema was capitalism's favourite revolutionary, and suddenly I was a Kremlin asset. Apparently, exposing the red-bereted...
Who Gets to Choose Our Judges? Muzi Sikhakhane’s Warning From Inside the Bar
As the JSC begins another round of judicial interviews, a long-running dispute over who gets to represent South Africa’s advocates...
Majoritariat-Phobia and the Rumour Machine Around March and March
What unfolded around March and March was a chaotic, uncoordinated liberal attack by people who imagine themselves as guardians of...
The DA’s Blue Icons: Liberal Masculinity, Political Theology and the Americanisation of South African Propaganda
The side-by-side image reveals the DA’s campaign aesthetic as secular iconography: the blue-lit male leader haloed by party branding, mirroring...
Mail & Guardian beats AfriForum complaint over ‘white genocide’ opinion piece
The Ombud did not rule on whether white genocide exists. He did something more important for public discourse. He ruled...
BRICS, the GNU and the Erasure of African Consciousness
South Africa has entered the multipolar moment without restoring African Consciousness to the centre of statecraft. As BRICS widens geopolitical...
Kim Heller’s Fanagalo: African Politics for Dummies
Political satire in which Gillian Schutte marks Kim Heller’s article like an exasperated lecturer, exposing its weak theory, colonial tone...
Ukudlalisa Ngamazwi: Misreading Erotic Play in a Feminist Courtroom — A Trial Against African Epistemologies
By: Gillian Schutte (uMamakaKai) What unfolds in the Judicial Tribunal of Judge President Selby Mbenenge is more than a battle...
Spectacle and the functioning of power structures. The take-down of Russell Brand.
By: Gillian Schutte This essay explores the interconnected use of rape allegations and conspiracy theory allegations against Russell Brand, an...
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THE TEMPLE TANTRUMERS
A temple tantrumer is someone whose conscience refuses to remain a spectator to injustice. The expression comes from the biblical...
Sies, DA! South Africa’s Municipal Services Are Not a Corporate Cash Cow
As South Africa approaches the November 2026 local government elections, the DA is pushing private-sector participation in municipal services as...