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The Abantu Book Festival took place for the third year in a row this past weekend, and more people than ever attended. The festival is a feat for South Africa’s literary sphere, as the first annual event celebrating Black writers, writing…

Valentine's Day 2018 left South Africa shook, and not because someone sent us roses unexpectedly. Not since the Zimbabwean coup-lite last year has this country been under as much stress as this week. The one and only President Jacob Zuma -…

There are bodies deemed valuable and bodies deemed disposable, with the factors of race, gender, sexuality and ability playing a role in deciding between the former and the latter. Bodies which do not conform to cisgender/heterosexuality,…

On Thursday, Trump was exposed for calling Haiti, El Salvador and African states “shithole countries” during an official meeting discussing immigrant protection. The whole world was outraged. Ordinary people derided his comments…

After the political fiasco of Monday’s African National Congress top six elections in which Cyril Ramaphosa was voted in as party president (and, let’s just say it, the president of the country), those who still have faith in the ANC…

President Zuma dropped the bomb of all bombs on the FeesMustFall question on Saturday, declaring free and state-subsidised tertiary education. While the decision has been rightfully criticised, little thought has been given to how this…

Cyril Ramaphosa is the man of the moment, no matter how hard most of us wish he weren’t. The national conference of the African National Congress (ANC) takes place from 16 to 20 December, and at the conclusion of the nomination process,…

On 6 December, the Council of the University Currently Known As Rhodes (UCKAR) publicly announced that it would not be changing the institution’s name, citing financial constraints and limited resources. This decision was actually made on…

November has been one helluva month, and most of us are looking forward to recovering over December. The Fees Commission released its disappointing results, the President’s Keepers had the country shook,  and Uncle Bob finally stepped…

This year has been a lot, and most of us are already counting down until it ends. But October wasn’t all bad despite the latest Cabinet Reshuffle, apartheid flags at #BlackMonday, the bad news that the leaked Fees Commission report…

This year keeps getting more and more extra. This July, South Africans have faced more racism in our schools, xenophobic building raids which left people homeless in Johannesburg and terrible weather. Can we live, 2017? At least things…

On Wednesday, the DA’s proportional representation councillor for Nelson Mandela Bay Renaldo Gouws posted a Facebook status calling out women who post “sexually suggestive statuses and images of them half naked bending over a bed taking…

This week, South African filmmaker Sibahle ‘Steve’ Nkumbi, was pushed down the stairs by her Airbnb host in Amsterdam, in what she says was a racially motivated attack. Airbnb has since banned the host, and he has been arrested and…

La France et l’Afrique: the issues persist

Officials appear to have washed their hands of hijacked buildings in the Joburg CBD, leaving poor and vulnerable residents to live in dire conditions at the mercy of unscrupulous rent collectors. On Wednesday, a fire broke out in the Cape…

A story of indifference.

So we’re more than halfway through 2017, and the country is still as dramatic as ever. Fires all over the Cape, more Gupta nonsense, the Proteas men disappointing at the Champions Trophy, and the cold, are all getting a bit much. It’s a…

Dear Professor Habib Twitter is an interesting platform. It allows a university, such as yours, to communicate with students in a slightly more casual way and to allow for mutual engagement. Many times, we have beautiful, meme-sharing,…

Around one million South Africans are autistic. But what is autism? Perhaps you read A Curious Case of the Dog in the Night Time or watched Rain Man and you might think you know about autism. Autistic people speak strangely, right? You…

At the end of March, Netflix released the series adaptation of the popular young adult novel Thirteen Reasons Why to much enthusiasm. Even though it’s aimed at teenagers and young adults, many older people have enjoyed watching the show…