Simon Lincoln Reader discusses ‘wokeness’ and ‘cancel culture’ in the South African context. He describes how a growing number of people are choosing to submit to the ‘parasites’ of race theory and cancel culture to join a misleading movement possessed by a set of ‘menacing, vacuous, dissembling and ahistorical delusions’. Helen Zille herself has been a victim of the ‘cancel culture’ that is so intertwined with ‘wokeness’, and she has written a book about its toxic effect on South Africa’s society. Reader explores the ramifications of speaking out against the ideology and why, in his view, Helen Zille’s book is so important. – Melani Nathan
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Rhodes Must Fall is still a defining moment
By Opinion
Wandile Kasibe
IT WAS during his visit to UCT on June 6, 1966, when Robert Kennedy said: âEach time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistanceâ.
And 49 years later these compelling words found expression in Chumani Maxweleâs institutional critique against the glorification of white supremacy embodied through the presence of the statue of Cecil John Rhodes and other colonial and apartheid symbols on UCT upper campus.