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Posts By Aishvarya Singh
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173PoliticsAhmed Timol Inquest: Unethical Apartheid Cover-ups Revealed
Ahmed Timol was an anti-apartheid activist, a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP), and a rather revered South African political...
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164InternationalSouth Africa’s Housing Issue
The apartheid regime did not succeed for so long simply by encouraging racial discrimination. Racial discrimination did serve as the foundation for...
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344InternationalStrippers Entertain Prisoners in South Africa
Pictures of prisoners in South Africa getting cosy with scantily clad women surfaced recently on Facebook. A Facebook user posted the picture,...
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343InternationalPolice Are Currently Responding To Three Separate Attacks Happening In London
It has been reported that a white van drove into pedestrians on London Bridge Station. People have taken to Twitter to report...
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210PoliticsSouth African Politician In Hot Water Over Controversial Colonialism Tweets
Leader of the Democratic Alliance(DA), Mmusi Maimane announced that the Western Cape Premier and former DA leader Helen Zille has been suspended....
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2.2K1Race5 Tips on How to Appreciate a Culture Instead of Appropriating It
You have probably heard the term “cultural appropriation” all over the internet- angry tweets calling out celebrities and entire articles devoted to...
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488InternationalBoko Haram Has Released 82 Kidnapped Schoolgirls
In April 2014, more than 200 Nigerian girls were kidnapped from a secondary school in Chibok by a terrorist group known as...
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774InternationalAhmed Kathrada’s Funeral: A Catalyst for Change
“Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.” –Mahatma Gandhi Anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada passed away in the...
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9211FeminismWhy Aren’t Feminine Hygiene Products Free?
Before someone says that periods are not that bad, why don’t we look at our society’s ridiculous take on menstruation? Aside from...
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1.4K58Real LifeColourism, a Backward Society
The poisonous tendrils of discrimination have no boundaries- they reach into the most obscure parts of a society’s mindset and create social...