The final day of the Constitution Hill Human Rights Festival falls on National Human Rights Day and the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse will be announcing the launch of its Water Community Action Network initiative. The Anti-rep.
On 7th July 2021, the people of South Africa were left in disbelief when former state president Jacob Zuma handed himself over to the police. He had been convicted for contempt of court and sentenced to 15 months imprisonment. This conviction came after he failed to appear before the Commission of Enquiry into Allegations of State Capture after he had been summoned. The former president cited Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo`s (the Chairperson of the Commission) refusal to recuse himself from the Commission among the reasons he refused to comply. By Esihle Matshaya (she/her), university of the Western Cape.
For all of the times South Africa has been called a “Rainbow Nation,” we have only been chasing rainbows. The recent riots of July 2021 might even indicate that South Africa has reached the “end of the rainbow” but with no pot of gold in sight. Equality remains elusive and this land has never known true reconciliation, writes Lerato Dumse (she/her) from Du Love Media.
Mr. President, we need to talk. We are living in a state of false unity and we can’t continue living like barcodes - separate but equal in black and white realities. The Black South African experience has become so strongly characterised by the constant fight for survival across all classes and identities. The political executions of Black people by the government under the apartheid regime were used to delegitimise and marginalise Black people, their rage and their resistance. By Asonele Phiri (she/her) a journalist from the Gauteng Province.