a QUICK ressponse, based on 20 yr exploration of apartheid south africa: ''impartiality'' is key to the research process, as it should be, to prevent bias, and therefore the production of questionable findings. When it comes to personal realities, re identity/discrimination/victimhood, then the apartheid-aligned scholar and his underling supporters (from rural ethnic tribal leaders, to city based petit bourgeois co players) most probably will not succeed in any meaningful way to cast true light on the situation at hand. Well established scholars, endowed in critical thinking (and not post modernist neo liberal irrationality), AND who emanate from both west and south, the mulatto class, could potentially offer far more balanced accounts re bias/discrimination factor. But tread extremely carefully here, dear honourable scientist: history has shown time and again that this hypothesis is not cast in iron stone. While the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of protesting Global Citizens are predominatly mixed/dark in skin colour, this by no means it is an exclusive affair. You do not need a certain skin colour to see and understand injustice, you need a good education. But when it comes to the innermost personal experience, it is arguably only or mostly the real victim's voice that matters most here. When it comes to conducting actual research, one needs to ask who is best situated, best to understand and make good sense of, what is said? again, skin colour does not really matter, Fr Beyers NAdeu, Ernesto G, Fr Micael Lapsley, and countless other light skinned co compatriots illustrate this with absolute clarity. The quest for justice and peace is universal, but the experience of injustice and war, is very different for the world;s global citizens. It is only when human beings are Not classified in specified ''races'' (which do not exist), that the situation could be addressed holistically and fruitfully. So, again, it boils down to the perpetuation of unscientific pseudo sub theory - ala the post modernist camp, and not the elevation of scientific theory, that continue to supercharge the this debate. Ask yourself dear honourable reader and scholar: how many papers on race.racism.identity.discrimination etc over the last twenty years? in peer reviewed journals, in 50 languages, published across western cities and territories? africa could be leading the pack. IS there any remote vision, anywhere ? whaatsoever that offers a way to a new tomorrow? maybe and perhaps there is. what does it entail? that ''race is a social construct''? but S Africa under that scholarly premise is today more divided and bigoted than before. As thinking scholars we need to stop treading in darkness and live up to our mandate : to contribute to building the new democracy. noone will succeed on any unscientific basis whatsoever, and that;s why we are still here, almost like exactly thrity years ago, Apartheid spacial planning is prevalent across Western Cape. Cape Town City? Best city in the world. But for whom? Even the Cubans are camping out comfortably here. The old and useless liberal thought brigagde has long run its course. And noone says a thing.