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Defend Truth

Sisonke Msimang

Sisonke Msimang is currently working on a book about belonging and identity. She tweets @sisonkemsimang.

Latest Work

Sisonke Msimang

7 September 2014

What’s in a name: Is TolA$$Mo the boy who cried k***?

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Sisonke Msimang

29 August 2014

Walking towards freedom: Thuli's journey

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Sisonke Msimang

20 August 2014

How to write about the deaths of people who don’t matter

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Sisonke Msimang

7 August 2014

Big butts and blackface: Why we need more naked women in Sandton

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Sisonke Msimang

31 July 2014

Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea: A nation beholden to criminals

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Sisonke Msimang

18 July 2014

Beauty & Grace: Mbeki, Hoffman and the power of stories

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Sisonke Msimang

10 July 2014

A few good whites: Will civil society take Dr Ramphele back?

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Sisonke Msimang

26 June 2014

There’s something about Mmusi: Black anger and white identity in Parliamentary politics

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Sisonke Msimang

18 June 2014

The triumph of the technocrats: Boredom as a political strategy

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Sisonke Msimang

11 June 2014

Limpho Hani, Clive Derby-Lewis and the power of refusing to forgive

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Sisonke Msimang

29 May 2014

When the new repeats the old: Marikana haunts new Zuma Cabinet

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Sisonke Msimang

23 May 2014

The trope of black incompetence: Are whites fit to run the DA?

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