South Africa’s Equality Court has banned flying the country’s apartheid-era flag, saying that “gratuitous” displays of the flag are acts of hate speech and racial discrimination. As the Washington Post reports, the decision was handed down Wednesday by Judge Phineas Mojapelo, who said flying […]
When the Johannesburg-based women’s wear designer Thebe Magugu, now 25, had nightmares as a child growing up in Kimberley, South Africa, his mother would tell him to record them in a journal. “I found them recently and thought to incorporate them in my work,” […]
Oscar Blayton It’s time we stop lying to ourselves. The lying has gone on much too long and every time the lie is repeated, we are all the worse for it. The lie is that in America, everyone is equal under the […]
Netflix, also known as “The Trillest Acquisition Company In The Industry,” is now setting its sights on Africa. According to South African publication IOL Entertainment, the streaming juggernaut will be developing Queen Sono, a dramedy starring Pearl Thusi (Quantico) about a top-level spy on a mission […]
President Donald Trump is facing more and more accusations of racism after Wednesday night when he tweeted about white farmers in South Africa. In a response to a segment on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, Trump said that he had asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo […]
Screenshot: News24 (YouTube) In a landmark ruling, for what lawyers believe to be the first time ever in South Africa, a person has been sentenced to prison for verbal racial abuse. According to the Guardian, Vicki Momberg was sentenced to three years (with one year […]