What if a childhood game was your first lesson in algebra? In this essay, Lovelyn challenges the labels ‘born-free’ and ‘rainbow nation’, and argues that young South Africans can only name themselves by remembering — and re-membering — the stories of who they are.

The Fault Lines of Reconciliation – Why South Africans URGENTLY need to develop Racial Literacy

Every few months, another institution makes headlines for racism, and every few weeks, we move on. In this January 2019 essay, Lovelyn argued that diversity is not transformation, and that South Africa’s reconciliation project depends on something most of us were never taught: racial literacy.