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  • Spotted: The Golliwog Alive And Well In Tygervalley

    31 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone in Featured, Mind Fuck, Spice, Uncool
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    I know it is the northern suburbs, behind the boerewors curtain, and all that. But potentially wrong is still potentially wrong. The picture to my left is part of an actual logo for a toyshop in Tygervalley Shopping Centre. Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you – that is an actual golliwog you are looking at.

    Yes. A toyshop.

    What’s wrong with a golliwog you ask? In case you’ve missed the over-exaggerated black face, nappy hair and red lips, have a read here.

    Still don’t see what the fuss is about? Have another look:

    In a country where columnists and musicians get lynched publicly for writing much less harmful things about cultures other than theirs, is this really just a logo? Or should we rather begin to ban this kind of iconography from our public domain?

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