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Not Yet Uhuru

This year South Africa celebrates 27 years of democracy. Yes, we are almost 30 years into a democracy but are we really free? It was this day that thousands of students protested against Bantu Education with Afrikaans being the medium of instruction in schools. 30 years later, racism allegations surface against esteemed privated schools. We have courageous individuals like Zulaikha Patel talking about racism and her experience with it. There is a lot of talk about decolonising education and Zulaikha shared something very interesting in an interview. She said that in order to decolonise education, we need to teach children how racism looks like now instead of pretending as if it is a thing of the past. Secondly,it is that Covid-19 is our first pandemic but Gender Based Violence (GBV) really is. Many lives of women have been taken way before Corona hit the streets of Mzanzi. Who knew that a simple visit to a post office could result in the death and rape of a woman. This country is still...