About this Dossier This Dossier unpacks how the language of genocide, victimhood, and humanitarian rescue is being weaponised to protect privilege and to reverse or retard struggles for equality and justice. It examines how whiteness is presented as vulnerability, how demands for equality are recast as threat and historical accountability as discrimination, and how this is happening at the expense of the many who are excluded from protection, recognition, and redress. The Dossier seeks to make these dynamics visible and expose the dangers they pose. In doing so, it hopes to contribute to political analysis, public engagement, and activism for human rights and social justice in South Africa and beyond.
Between the bulldozer and the bathroom: How to read gender-based violence against women and children in South African media
Violent crime and the myth of South Africa’s ‘white genocide’ Murder and armed robbery affect everyone living in South Africa – to say otherwise suggests a worrying ideological agenda.
AfriForum’s Racial Hoax Shapes American Foreign Policy on South Africa This article situates the moment within South Africa’s longer history of racial hoaxes and moral panics, revealing how old myths have been repackaged in and through contemporary international far-right white networks and politics. Mandisi Majavu
White Supremacy Reloaded: How South Africa’s Unfinished Nation-Building Gave New Life to the White Right This article traces how white right-wing organisations in South Africa transformed from apartheid-era beneficiaries into global protagonists of white victimhood. It discusses how an unresolved transformative project of nation-building, neoliberal transition, and a lack of scrutiny of whiteness, have enabled the white right to revitalise and strengthen. Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara
