The Minority Report

Welcome to The Minority Report. A podcast that discusses issues around minorities, indigenous people and communities in South Africa and around the world. Robin Jackson and co-host Donovan Hantam bring you stories and reports of the plight and challenges that indigenous people face in their respective communities.

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German Massacre: Namibia's move towards reparations.

The wounds inflicted on 60,000 Herero and 10,000 Namas in the erstwhile colony of Southwest Africa have yet to heal. The scars from the exhibition of human remains in museums and the manipulation for racist scientific hypotheses are added to the scars from concentration camps and slave labor. After a century of denial, both countries' governments agreed to compensate each other for 1.1 billion euros over 30 years. However, the victims' relatives do not believe their demands are being heard. Germ...

May 19, 2022•9 min

Canada's Residential Schools: A dark legacy of Cultural Genocide

The discovery of the remains of 215 children at the site of a former school in British Columbia shocked Canadians in May. The bodies belonged to Indigenous children as young as three years old who had attended Canada's state-sponsored "residential school" system. The schools, which were spread across the country, were designed to eradicate Indigenous peoples' culture and languages. The findings have refocused the world's attention on this heinous chapter in Canadian history, left deep wounds in ...

May 11, 2022•11 min

Amazon Denied Leave to Appeal

The Western Cape High Court has dealt another major blow to the construction of Amazon’s new African headquarters in Observatory in Cape Town. The developers behind the R4-billion River Club mixed-use complex with Amazon as anchor tenant have been denied leave to appeal a court order halting construction. The court’s deputy judge president Patricia Goliath struck the application down, stating she had carefully considered her judgment and concluded that the arguments raised against it were withou...

May 06, 2022•3 min

Amazon vs the Khoi and the San: When Capitalism clashes with Indigenous Rights.

The Khoi and the San were the earliest inhabitants of South Africa, the latter roaming as hunter gatherers for tens of thousands of years. Khoi and San leaders are celebrating after developers were told to halt construction on land said to be sacred. About two months ago, the Western Cape High Court granted an urgent interdict against developers working for the US-based company Amazon which is building its Africa head offices in Cape Town. The Black River Observatory site is allegedly sacred to ...

May 04, 2022•10 min

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