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Author: Professor Itumeleng Mothoagae
Professor in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Unisa College of Human Sciences. He writes in his personal capacity.
Prof Itumeleng Mothoagae argues that deploying soldiers into townships reflects a failure of governance, not a solution to South Africa’s deep structural inequalities.
Prof Itumeleng Mothoagae reflects on SONA 2026 and argues that the militarisation of townships exposes deeper historical and structural failures in governance.
In this powerful reflection, Prof Itumeleng Mothoagae reclaims Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson as a theologian of the Black Universal, arguing that his life and legacy must be read through Négritude, transatlantic ontology and the unfinished struggle for Black liberation.
Prof ID Mothoagae contends the Madlanga Commission is a forensic audit of an unfinished transition and enduring criminal continuity.
Prof Mothoagae interrogates the 16 Days of Activism through the lens of colonial power and necropolitics, exposing how violence against women, girls and LGBTIQA+ bodies is structurally sustained.
Prof Itumeleng D Mothoagae examines the national shutdown against gender-based violence in South Africa, offering a decolonial critique of systemic oppression, spatialized violence, and the struggle to reclaim dignity and agency for Black women, queer, and trans bodies.
South Africa confronts imperial power at the 2025 G20 and the ICJ, asserting sovereignty and justice, writes Professor Itumeleng Mothoagae.
Professor Itumeleng Mothoagae argues that South Africa’s G20 presidency must confront necropolitics, coloniality, and hypermasculinity to realise reparative justice.
Biko’s legacy lives through Black embodiment, spiritual sovereignty, and the radical ethics of ontological resistance.
South Africa’s BRICS diplomacy reflects a Negritude-rooted foreign policy—asserting African agency, rejecting Eurocentric global norms, and reimagining sovereignty through strategic multilateralism.