Simamkele Dlakavu responds to Rehad Desai’s film ‘The Giant is Falling’
“Say No, Black Woman”: ‘The Giant is Falling’ and the erasure of Black women in
South Africa
The narration of anti-capitalist and anti-white supremacist struggles in post-apartheid South African public discourse generated by events such as the #FeesMustFall movement and the Marikana massacre have tended to privilege certain voices. They have fallen into “‘malestream’ African history” characterised by the silencing of women’s voices, a tendency seen in previous anti-colonial struggles in the country.
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