Lwando Xaso

Lwando Xaso is an attorney and a writer exploring the interaction between race, gender, history and popular culture. She is the author of the book, ‘Made in South Africa, A Black Woman’s Stories of Rage, Resistance and Progress’.

Institutional racism: The real price of admission to ‘white schools’ too high for black kids

Lwando Xaso
05 JUN

Polyandry would be a superficial solution to deeply entrenched gender inequality

Lwando Xaso
02 JUN

Preamble to our Constitution is not a rotten foundation; true healing requires justice

Lwando Xaso
25 MAY

Preamble to our Constitution is not a rotten foundation; history is part of the story

Lwando Xaso
23 MAY

When terror strikes, as it did to me when I was nine, remember the power of love

Lwando Xaso
18 MAY

Death is like losing a library to a fire – both wipe out our collective memory

Lwando Xaso
24 APR

ANC accountability: We must be on guard ‘not only against our enemies but against ourselves’

Lwando Xaso
18 APR

Constitutional democracy: Credit to the women who paved the way for us to enjoy the winds of freedom

Lwando Xaso
13 APR

This Freedom Month, let’s find liberation through our own four freedoms

Lwando Xaso
05 APR

Forgive and forget: The politics of apologising

Lwando Xaso
28 MAR

By transforming the way we raise our children, we can transform our country

Lwando Xaso
20 MAR

Happily never after: Meghan Markle’s privilege of proximity to whiteness has limitations

Lwando Xaso
18 MAR

Human Rights Month: Follow your ambitions and celebrate our long walk to freedom

Lwando Xaso
06 MAR

Sometimes we must wrestle with unpleasant realities because hope on its own is severely limited

Lwando Xaso
01 MAR

Age of enlightenment: Embrace life’s seasons and don’t let the world define you

Lwando Xaso
21 FEB

Black Lives Matter nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, but does the award matter?

Lwando Xaso
09 FEB

On being broken and unfinished: We were built to break, also to heal and survive

Lwando Xaso
04 FEB

Home(lessness) truths: confronting my own unkindness, fear and intolerance

Lwando Xaso
24 JAN

Our expectations of 2021 have been tempered – but hope blooms if we tend to it

Lwando Xaso
10 JAN

Insurrection and racism in the US: A disgrace and a warning

Lwando Xaso
07 JAN

’Tis the season to be jolly compassionate and to shun conspicuous consumption

Lwando Xaso
15 DEC

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