Still Stuck Between Black and White

The #BlackFace

Two White Stellenbosch Students donned the #BlackFace. Image by Twitter

#BlackFace

Moreover, Conrad mentions the latest varsity (Stellenbosch Univesiteit) where its students (two male students) polished their faces with polish to look perhaps black and reportedly wore clothes to look like the famous tennis, Williams sisters. However, University of Pretoria students were the first ones to do the black face and they were later suspended - this raised racial concerns. Unlike how professor Pierre de Vos wrote how "for many decades Stellenbosch University implemented race-based affirmative action policies to benefit white Afrikaners" - DailyMaverick (Opinion).

Although Chester Missing's 'sidekick', Koch is questioning and emphasises the problem with 'diversity discourse' that fails to raise serious debates about power and history. He argues that diversity has left those without power per-se under socially acceptable solutions. "Diversity is a product of the post-94 Rainbow Nation rhetoric, of the discourse that Born Frees are becoming post-racial, and that us old (I am 37) bigots all just need to get over it," Writes Koch.