Tag Archives: xenophobia
Oscar Pistorius. Afrikaner vrot banana
That great white myth – the Afrikaner masculine identity. [For Jacques Pauw.] “Pistorius was born without fibula bones into this obsessive and well-resourced sporting culture. He had his legs amputated as a baby, but his tough Afrikaner family treated that almost as a detail.” Simon Kuper in The Financial Times. “The Blade Runner, the Afrikaner hero, […]
Xenophobia according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary is simply a deep dislike of foreigners
Xenophobia according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary is simply a deep dislike of foreigners. According to the media we have another wave of xenophobia sweeping our country along the same kind of lines as the ‘xenophobia’ of 2008. The ‘xenophobia’ of 2008 saw 63 lives lost of which 22 were South Africans. These ‘flash mobs’ […]
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