TED Women 2016: If a Story Moves you, Act On It.
The TEDWomen 2016 conference takes place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, where we'll explore how time and attention shape our lives. It's about time… Learn more >
Caster Semenya is the one at a disadvantage
When athletes lined up for the 800m women’s final in Rio last week they weren’t exactly starting from a level playing field – on that we can all agree. But who was it who enjoyed the “unfair advantage” that the eventual winner Caster Semenya has been accused of holding? Various competitors and commentators have declared that the …
Boris Johnson is perfectly in tune with Britain’s post-colonial lament
In the days since his appointment as the UK’s foreign minister, Boris Johnson’s offensive statements about Africans, Americans, Europeans, Papua New Guineans, Russians, Turks and pretty much everyone in the world outside Britain have received significant coverage. This comes as no surprise. Johnson has been a public figure for many years, and in that time he …
The Oscar Pistorius Sentence: A Win For White Privilege
On Wednesday, Oscar Pistorius was sent to prison. He will serve a six-year sentence for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp, the model with whom he was romantically involved until he killed her in February 2013. There was an outcry as Thokozile Masipa, the judge who has handled this matter for the last two years, deviated from …
June 16: In time it became a love-song, a hymn and a war-cry
The memory of 1976 is one of violence and courage and smoke and dust of course, but it is now a collectively owned memory, one that – if taken seriously – implicates us all as we chart the future. The ANC would like to claim 1976 as its struggle but we know this is only …