Culture

Is the Right in South Africa Now Woke Too?

Has South Africa’s political right adopted the language and tactics of the woke left, or is Afrikaner self-protection something fundamentally different?

Aug 13 • PIET DU PLESSIS

The Real Horror Is Central Planning

Even when surrounded by monsters, the answer is always freedom.

Aug 10 • Nicholas Woode-Smith

The Burqa Does Not Liberate, and the State Does Not Own Women

The Taliban’s war on women is not merely a religious or cultural issue. It is the logical result of a state that claims ownership over private life.

Aug 5 • RS Guest Author

Football Matters

Football can turn something as simple as a ball and an open field into opportunity, national pride and international influence.

Aug 3 • Nicholas Woode-Smith

Economic Power Is Not Enough: A Gramscian View of the Afrikaner’s Loss of Cultural Hegemony

Economic power without cultural power offers only a false sense of security.

Jul 17 • PIET DU PLESSIS

Rethinking Identity And Belonging In South Africa

South African identity is not only legal or national. It is shaped by language, culture, place, memory, and the communities where people feel they truly…

Jul 14 • Ayanda S Zulu

South Africa Must Stop Romanticising Violence

South Africa needs a new political culture; one that stops confusing militancy with courage. One that stops treating revolutionary nostalgia as a…

Jul 13 • Nicholas Woode-Smith

When Mercy Doesn’t Compound

The country is not short of decent people. What it’s short of is any structure that would let decency compound the way capital compounds.

Jul 11 • Bryan Theunissen

Teaching Students To Think, Not What To Think

The purpose of history education should not be to cultivate a particular political consciousness or identity. Rather, its purpose is to equip students…

Jul 9 • Nicholas Woode-Smith and Ayanda S Zulu

It’s Never Too Late for Letter Bombs

South Africa survives because ordinary people perform small acts of anti-collapse.

Jul 8 • RS Guest Author

Taxis Are Their Own Worst Enemy

The taxi industry has a choice. It can become a legitimate, competitive, indispensable transport sector, or it can continue behaving like a cartel with…

Jul 6 • Nicholas Woode-Smith

Abahambe and the Collapse of the Rainbow Nation

The Abahambe crisis is not just about immigration. It is about what happens when a weak state, economic desperation, and ethnic scapegoating collide.

Jun 30 • RS Guest Author

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