· June, 2011

Stories about South Africa from June, 2011

South Africa: On Being White and Feeling Ashamed

  27 June 2011

On being white and feeling ashamed in South Africa: “Should white people in South Africa feel ashamed about being white and about the fact that we benefited in the past because of our white skins and continue to benefit from our whiteness – even if we were born after the...

South Africa: The Ideology of the Democratic Alliance

  5 June 2011

Sean posts a piece on the politics of the South African opposition party, the Democratic Alliance written by Jane Duncan (a journalism professor at Rhodes University): “The DA under the leadership of Helen Zille is a political phenomenon. It is winning more hearts and minds, including in working class communities...