This young writer has written a book of IsiZulu poetry but...
Grade 11 pupil, MENZI MTHETHWA has written a book of IsiZulu poetry, but he's struggling to realise his dream of being published.
It's unfortunate that...
Lifelong Student Dr Ashraf Davids is a beacon of the Cape...
Mitchells Plain has long been associated with the violence of gangs, but that does not define the township. It is a vibrant, colourful community...
Actress Wandi C on dropping out of varsity and trying to...
Born in Durban and having moved to Joburg six months ago because she had reached the ceiling in Durban’s entertainment industry, actress and TV...
Journalist Abra Barbier on journalism in South Africa in 2020
The experienced journalist opened up in her private capacity on the turmoil in the industry.
What is your background?
I started out as an intern in...
From rural KZN to PhD: there’s more to Musa Manzi than...
In many circles, MUSA MANZI (29) is known as the first black South African to obtain a PhD in Geophysics, but there is more...
Malls as the site of the “new apartheid”
In Dr. Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh’s new book, The New Apartheid, he unpacks how apartheid never ended in South Africa. Instead it just reinvented itself and...
“We are more than drugs, gangsters and gold teeth”
Eldorado Park has become synonymous with drugs dens and gangsterism. Journalist MAXINE BECKET shares her experience of reporting in one of South Africa's drug...
“I don’t like smoking whoonga anymore but being unemployed isn’t helping...
BHEKANI BHENGU, a 31-year-old from Claremont, Durban, was hooked on whoonga for 11 years. He was at the Durban University of Technology's "Support, don't...
Why I Gave Up Corporate Life To Serve Gamalakhe Township
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Phumelele Bohlale (34) a former senior employee at Unilever and Mandela Washington Fellowship alumnus left her corporate job three years back in...
Living with Tourette syndrome: “I always say sorry because it gives...
After 10 years of living with Tourette syndrome (TS), 19-year-old RADLYN NAIDOO, born in Durban and studying at the University of Pretoria, has been...
#LGBQTILife : Ashwin Thyssen on queerness, faith and creating your own...
We live in a country with high rates of hate crimes, and it feels like we have very little to celebrate as a queer...
Transgendered sex workers face a triple threat of stigma
AYANDA D, a transgendered sex worker in her 30s from Cape Town, has been a sex worker for 15-20 years. She’s at the International...
Meet the street performer who uses his talent to help kids
In the Cape Town CBD, chattering pedestrians and whirring traffic are the chorus of inner city life. But on the odd visit to the city...
Stirring up spaces with poet Koleka Putuma
22-year-old theatre director, writer and poet KOLEKA PUTUMA spoke to Mbali Zwane about her poem Water, and navigating being a black woman in the...
Being transgender in SA: “People have identified me as different and...
ZANNA CHETTY, a 24-year-old transgender woman from Durban has faced many prejudices as a result of her orientation, from sexual abuse to being ostracised...
A South African student in Europe experiencing her second Lockdown talks...
Bronwyn April is a qualified social worker, who had been working as a Youth Development Practitioner previously. We chat to her about living in...
Artist Rezah Sampson on creativity and speaking up
Rezah Sampson has been an online personality for years. He has used the space to start conversations around social issues, especially within the queer...
In Their Own Words: Kea Monama on activism and racism at...
Puso Keamogetse Monama is 19-years-old. However, she mostly goes by Kea Monama because “it's a lot easier.” She is a host on the Blacknificent...
“We’re not asking them to nurse black people” – an...
Three of the 27 students from the University of Pretoria who were arrested last week for their alleged participation in the clashes that ensued...
Women are just as capable in the police as men
SAPS brigadier BONGI SITHOLE (49) has been in the police force longer than the average Daily Vox reader has been alive. She spoke to...
