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Last week's murder of South African reggae star Lucky Dube, 43, in a failed carjacking should finally bury the misconception that the country's crime problem is a black-on-white issue. Dube, last Friday, was shot while dropping off his two teenage children at his brother's house in Rossettenville, near downtown Johannesburg. The children survived unharmed...
...death of an international music star who had sung against apartheid and in celebration of peace and unity sparked outrage across South Africa. The following day, crowds surrounded and beat a suspected purse-snatcher in Bez Valley, shouting that it was men like him "who had killed Lucky Dube." On Monday, police announced they had arrested five people in connection with Dube's murder, and the country's newspapers pointed out the irony in his tragic death. In his eerily prescient 2001 song "Crime and Corruption," Dube demanded that the post-apartheid government protect its people from the surging crime...
...what has happened to the new South Africa? The government argues that crime is fueled by the gross social iniquities bequeathed by apartheid. That may be true, but as Dube pointed out, it is also true that the African National Congress, the liberation movement that is now the ruling party, has been a disappointment. Unemployment is 40% overall, but in some areas - and among people under 30 - it is significantly higher. Given the poor sanitation, medical care, and water and electricity supplies to millions of impoverished South Africans, they could be forgiven for wondering how much the end of apartheid...
Last spring, the same semester that I took FemSex, a not-for-credit seminar that explores a number of issues dealing with female sexuality, two people argued in The Crimson that FemSex is not the best way to strive for female empowerment. In an op-ed, Vanessa J. Dube ’10 described FemSex as “only interested in separating women into these silly slumber party seminars,” while Lucy M. Caldwell ’09, a Crimson editorial columnist, said that a woman thinking of taking FemSex would be better off finding a sexually...
...contrary to popular belief, the class does not have some kind of political agenda, but rather serves to create a discussion forum for women with every conceivable viewpoint. Nor is it filled with a homogeneous group of oversensitive and misguided people, as Caldwell and Dube imply. Nowhere have I felt on equal standing and un-judged with a group of students so diverse: Black, white, single, married, gay, straight, athletes, artists, freshmen, seniors, conservative, liberal, virgins, and the experienced. If I had not taken FemSex, I would never have had the opportunity to meet the amazing women...