Showing posts with label Siphokazi Magadla. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Siphokazi Magadla. Show all posts
Friday, 20 March 2015

One Needs a Strong Stomach

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Siphokazi Magadla, The Con The Texture of Shadows by Mandla Langa is set in 1989 South Africa, amid murmurs of Nelson Mandela’s relea...
Thursday, 12 March 2015

Mandla Langa speaking at the Grahamstown launch of 'The Texture of Shadows'

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Monday, 2 February 2015

Eugene de Kock and the Violence of 'Nation Building and Reconciliation'

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Siphokazi Magadla, SACSIS The 27th of January 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of the ‘liberation’ of Auschwitz-Birkenau. This is the c...
Friday, 28 November 2014

Some Are Soldiers, Others ‘Straatmeide”

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Siphokazi Magadla, The Con Reports that Julius Malema, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), called Minister of Small Busi...
Saturday, 25 October 2014

Mother of the Nation or Lady Macbeth?

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Winnie Mandela There is no middle ground for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela write Vashna Jagarnath and Siphokazi Magadla. The Con   Ther...
Tuesday, 16 September 2014

The Deafening Silence of the EFF's Women Leaders

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Siphokazi Magadla, SACSIS “All we are asking is that he pay back the money, why are we getting thrown out?” was the question that came ...
Thursday, 12 June 2014

The Bloemhof incident: Affirmative action on death row

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Siphokazi Magadla Siphokazi Magadla, Al Jazeera A water crisis in South Africa's northwestern town of Bloemhof has led to the d...
Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Teaching the dream curriculum in nightmare conditions

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Siphokazi Magadla, Bokamoso One of the enduring memories I have of my life in high school is of my then young brilliant Grade 10 Histor...
Thursday, 7 November 2013

EFF and the return of the warrior citizen

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by Siphokazi Magadla, Thought Leader The advent of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has gained much attention as the first clear rec...
Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Simphiwe Dana is nobody’s darling

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By Siphokazi Magadla, Thought Leader , 23 September 2013  “ Part of what makes Simphiwe Dana so compelling for me, part of why I had t...
Saturday, 22 June 2013

Forget the skirt, arrest the fashion police!

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Thought Leader If Lindiwe Mazibuko and Angie Motshekga appear poles apart politically, there is one reality they have shared socially —...
Friday, 15 March 2013

Why I no longer tell my brother to wear his pants properly

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By Siphokazi Magadla, Thought Leader Saggy pants is a popular form of displaying rebellion to teenage respectability by young men who wea...
Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Simply having a female president will not rescue the ANC

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Siphokazi Magadla By Siphokazi Magadla, City Press A recent edition of City Press carried an article “The time is nigh for the ANC t...
Monday, 13 August 2012

The problem with independent women

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By Siphokazi Magadla, Thought Leader Many women who identify as feminist know that August is the one month they’re always asked how the fe...
Monday, 11 July 2011

On Thinking Africa: the perpetual question

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by Siphokazi Magadla, Address at the opening night of the Frantz Fanon Fifty Years Later Colloquium   It was in our first Fanon reading gr...