SABC concedes its editorial policy is wrong. What next?
While the HSF interdict is a victory for democracy, the SABC still has other cases currently underway, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Limits to lawfare in fixing SABC
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.
It’s high time to decolonise Afrikaans
Freeing the language from its straitjacket would make it easier for all to be more comfortable with it, writes Eusebius McKaiser
Moral panic of firms isn’t enough
Simply ticking off a box that says 'diversity training' is not going to break long-standing institutional habits of discrimination
Gimmicky diversity workshops not enough
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 ...
Epistemic Injustices: the dark side of academic freedom
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 ...
Artistic criticism isn’t censorship
There is a difference between the artistic and moral engagement with a work of art and asking an artist to self-censor.
We must make sense of our madness
It’s easier to condemn violence than to ask why violence takes place, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Get to root of violence – don't condemn
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 benefit from false ‘complexity’
Racists can be hard to spot when they mimic the same range of human interactions as anti-racists, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
The k-word leaves no room for doubt
Apologies for racism are now as popular as racism itself, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Men, not the courts, must end rape culture
The criminal justice system will never be the best way to end the rape culture embedded in our society, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Macho language’s rape culture role
The criminal justice system will never be the best way to end the rape culture embedded in our society.
Skeletons can’t be ignored
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 ...
ANC skeletons can’t just be ignored
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.
Watch out for Trump-like politicians
A politician who lies isn’t the worst of the lot, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Bull*** politics: stooping to untruths
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 ...
Is Zuma superior to the ANC?
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.
Is Zuma superior to the ANC?
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 ...
My journey to agnosticism
Faith should not satisfy anyone with a brain, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
McKaiser: from altar boy to agnostic
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 ...
Guptas useful distraction for ANC
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 ...
When love and politics collide
Voting is not a detached activity devoid of emotions, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Data-driven DA’s detached politics flawed
“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 ...
Crude campaigning won’t work for ANC
The ANC probably wishes voters would cast their ballots on the basis of nostalgia, writes Eusebius McKaiser.