Thursday, March 24, 2016

Tackling South African racism via the social onion theory

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Institutionalised racism, the first layer. Photo Copyright Shafiq Morton THE official launch of the Anti-Racism Network South Africa...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

On being anti-racist...

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Is Islam in the townships any less in value? Photo Copyright Shafiq Morton. RACISM, a discriminatory and distasteful fact of human ...
Friday, February 26, 2016

A Drop of the Mercy Ocean

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This very simple, but beautiful nasihah (piece of advice) was found written on an envelope I discovered in my files the other day. It is...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Mandla Mandela becomes Muslim, and the victim of unbecoming phobia and racism

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Mandela and Clarke. Benny Gool Photo. LATE Saturday night (6 February) my Blackberry vibrated with urgency on my night table. Oh no,...
Thursday, February 11, 2016

District Six - 50 years on...

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FIFTY years ago the South African apartheid government tore out the soul of Cape Town when District Six, a multi-cultural and diverse rac...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Racism in South Africa: a victim of two “isms”, colonialism and republican nationalism

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Photo Copyright Shafiq Morton I n the light of racist utterances in social media we cannot lose focus now due to the distractions of ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

District Six Commemoration of Prophet

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THE Salihiyyah male jama'at, or congregation, held their annual mawlud - the celebration of the Prophet's birthday - at the ...