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Where is the black conservative in South Africa?

Mandela Rhodes Scholars — Sun, 19 May 2013 13:41:30 +0000

By Melo Magolego The deafening umbrage surrounding the DA’s use of Mandela in DA posters makes me curious. What has made people so flustered about the appropriation of the Mandela brand by the DA? I find reasons focusing on the veracity and accuracy of the claims about the track record of Helen Suzman wholly uninteresting....

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Whose language is it anyway?

Mandela Rhodes Scholars — Fri, 03 May 2013 12:34:21 +0000

By Athambile Masola The language question has reared its ugly head again. Recently Rebecca Davis wrote an article about research that confirms “English is leading the way as the most preferred teaching language”. As an English teacher this ought to make me happy. However, I am not convinced that the findings from this research account...

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There are many Oranias in SA

Mandela Rhodes Scholars — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:46:00 +0000

By Athambile Masola As a product of a Eurocentric, former white educational institution, I was once very quick to embrace non-racialism (that race should no longer be used as a marker to understand our experiences). I’ve been living in Cape Town for over a year and have come face to face with the politics of...

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Why all Afrikaners should go to Europe

Mandela Rhodes Scholars — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:42:26 +0000

By Mark John Burke Europe is a great place, it really is. You step off your plane onto a train that takes you to your destination and once there trams and buses stand ready to take you to wherever you want. Europeans have perfected recycling and they go to great lengths to ensure everybody’s safety....

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Ubuntu in western society

Mandela Rhodes Scholars — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:50:16 +0000

By Melo Magolego Black South Africans have a penchant for waxing lyrical about botho/ubuntu. It is an ideology which, much like Pratley Putty, we seek to export worldwide. An ideology to which we claim intellectual property and boldly assert is inextricably linked to our being Africans. But is this thing really that unique? Or do...

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UKZN is failing its students

Mandela Rhodes Scholars — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:02:43 +0000

By Matthew Beetar If Monty Python were still in business they would need look no further than the University of KwaZulu-Natal for material. The absurdity of the management of the institution, ironically pitched to be “inspiring greatness”, has reached a new level of disregard for the staff and students. The coping mechanism of laughing instead...

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Do women have to champion other women’s causes

Mandela Rhodes Scholars — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:56:06 +0000

By Melo Magolego The interwebs are abuzz with Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer asking all staff that work from home to start reporting to the office. Those affected include middle-class mothers for whom the flexibility of working from home had afforded the opportunity to lead more balanced lives — to be both mothers and career...

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Young white South Africans…where are you?

Mandela Rhodes Scholars — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:58:50 +0000

By Janet Jobson I never imagined that one of the biggest challenges I would face this year would be how to get young white South Africans interested in joining a network of young leaders driving public innovation. It had simply never occurred to me that it would be difficult. After all, my whole life I’ve...

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How much money is enough?

Mandela Rhodes Scholars — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:09:30 +0000

By Mario Meyer Aristotle, in The Nicomachean Ethics, makes the following assertion: “The life of money-making is one undertaken by compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.” One of the intractable questions of moral philosophy is the question of...

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Reflecting on Lance Armstrong’s flaws

Mandela Rhodes Scholars — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:53:38 +0000

By Melo Magolego I think Lance should hang up his racing shorts and head for the world of national politics. Truly this man’s other talents are lying in waste. Watching him in his interview with Oprah I thought him to be very intelligent: he gives measured responses, effortlessly tames negative questions and then masterfully spins...

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