Thought Leadership

Writing on Race, Class, Gender and Representation

I write opinion columns and am called to comment on issues of race, gender and class in media often. As an academic, my work in books and academic journals has been focused on race, class, gender and developing socially-just curricula for diverse societies.

Academic Journals

• 10 February 2021 Debunking the Apartheid Spatial Grid: Developing a Socially Just Architecture Curriculum at a University of Technology
• 20 June 2020 Crossing Borders as ‘New’ Academics in Contested Times: Reflexive Narratives of Curriculum Change and Transformation Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, CRISTAL
• 14 November 2019 Re-Imagining Curriculum: Spaces for Disruption (Chapter 16: Advancing Democratic Values in Higher Education through Open Curriculum Co‑Creation towards an Epistemology of Uncertainty)
• 15 August 2019 Sociology Review (Understanding The Politics Of Representation in Practice: Two Reflections on Positionality in Movements for Change)
• 26 September 2016 Education as Change 21(2):187-207, January 2017 (Dreaming up a new grid: Two lecturers’ reflections on challenging traditional notions of identity and privilege in a South African classroom)

Diversity

• 10 March 2021 Meghan, Harry’s Racism Claims Spark Backlash in Commonwealth Nations
• 2 August 2020 ‘black students matter’ hits South Africa’s elite schools
• 27 March 2020 South Africans Ignore Stay-at-Home Order Imposed to Tackle Coronavirus
• 15 August 2019 Understanding The Politics Of Representation in Practice: Two Reflections on Positionality in Movements for Change
• 21 March 2019 Everything you need to know about #HumanRightsDay
• 18 June 2018 #FeesMustFall student activists reflect on their own legacy
• 29 March 2018 How racists hurt real people and why they should be punished
• 14 December 2017 The media has handled Steinhoff corruption with kid gloves
• 8 June 2017 Just like Rhodes statue fell, #ZilleMustFall
• 19 October 2016 South Africa’s ‘rainbow nation’ is a myth that students need to unlearn
• 4 September 2015 Free the Female Body. Period.
• 15 April 2015 Cry not, beloved country
• 25 September 2014 Heritage not about braaivleis
• 19 September 2014 Schools must move with times

Political Analysis

• 19 February 2021 Insufficient Care to Protect Government against Financial Loss, Overpricing: AG
• 10 May 2019 DA, ANC Western Cape Low Support Self-Inflicted: Analyst
• 20 October 2016 #FeesMustFall: Understanding the Current Shitstorm