While the HSF interdict is a victory for democracy, the SABC still has other cases currently underway, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
WE HAVE started to rely quite slavishly on lawfare to settle important public disagreements. The latest lawfare is of course playing out at the SABC.
Freeing the language from its straitjacket would make it easier for all to be more comfortable with it, writes Eusebius McKaiser
Simply ticking off a box that says 'diversity training' is not going to break long-standing institutional habits of discrimination
THERE’S a moral panic in some sections of corporate South Africa. This could potentially be put to good use in terms of moving us closer to more inclusive workplace ...
This is the prepared text of the 2016 DCS Oosthuizen Academic Freedom Memorial Lecture that was delivered by Eusebius Mckaiser at the Rhodes University on 30 May ...
There is a difference between the artistic and moral engagement with a work of art and asking an artist to self-censor.
It’s easier to condemn violence than to ask why violence takes place, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
It is suspiciously easier to condemn violence than to ask why violence takes place. Violence, in its various permutations, means the destruction of public property ...
Racists can be hard to spot when they mimic the same range of human interactions as anti-racists, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Apologies for racism are now as popular as racism itself, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
The criminal justice system will never be the best way to end the rape culture embedded in our society, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
The criminal justice system will never be the best way to end the rape culture embedded in our society.
There’s something distractingly pathetic about evoking an impressive past in an attempt to have one’s present-day failures be looked upon with kindness, writes Eusebius ...
There is something distractingly pathetic about evoking an impressive past in an attempt to have one's present-day failures be looked upon with kindness.
A politician who lies isn’t the worst of the lot, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Did you know that a politician who lies isn’t the worst of the lot? No, really. Anyone who lies also knows the truth. And they want to hide the truth from you because ...
The sole conclusion we can reach from Jacob Zuma’s address last Friday is that the president takes each one of us to be a moegoe, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
I am afraid, fellow South Africans, the sole conclusion that we can reach from the televised address from President Jacob Zuma on Friday night is that he takes each ...
Faith should not satisfy anyone with a brain, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
I remember bowing in front of the altar and walking up three or four stairs, towards my left, where the Holy Communion was to be prayed over before Father was to ...
The Guptas are a useful but dangerous distraction for the ANC. The ANC can pretend that there is a single narrative about what is wrong with our politics and call ...
Voting is not a detached activity devoid of emotions, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
“Isn’t it childish to expect a political party to make you fall in love with it, Eusebius?!” asked Antony Altbeker of me, in his characteristically incisive and ...
The ANC probably wishes voters would cast their ballots on the basis of nostalgia, writes Eusebius McKaiser.