Liepollo Lebohang Pheko

At the risk of evoking the wrath and ire of my own faith community, I am using the metaphor of Donald Trump’s victory to describe the ascendancy of so many things that are so wrong with the idea of a Trumped up world.

In a time of great expectations and great contestations between and within societies at large, there seem to be as many things keeping people apart as those that bind them together.

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One year since the Chibok Girls were removed from a school and wrenched from the relative peace, comfort and safety of their community, homes and families there are more questions that answers.

‘The Help’ is a movie that tells the story of black domestic workers who quite literally hold up the economic and social sky of their employers in early 1960s Jackson, Mississippi.

Last week on South Africa’s ETV an unexpected national moment occurred, a phrase was coined and a YouTube global discourse erupted.

‘We must pay the closest attention to women's situation because it pushes the most conscious of them into waging a sex war when what we need is a war of classes or parties, waged together, side by side. We have to say frankly that it is the attitude of men that makes such confusion possible.