Elections Live Blog (10/05)
Welcome to the third day of The Daily Vox’s elections live blog. We’re bringing you live updates as votes are counted. We’ll mostly be...
Here’s How To Keep Updated With The Daily Vox
As you know, The Daily Vox lives online. Earlier this year, Facebook changed it's algorithms to prioritise "meaningful interactions" from friends and family over...
Rwanda’s Healthcare Workers Determined To Save The Lives Of Newborn Babies
A new Unicef report reveals a horrifying statistic: in lower-income countries, 27 newborns out of every 1 000 die before they are four weeks old....
Climate change deconstructed
Climate change's damage to the planet by climate change is on its way to being irreversible. Yet governments and large corporations continue to do...
Beauty Bias, And The Creation Of Pretty Privilege
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Let’s be frank: the more attractive society perceives you to be, the more social and economic opportunities you will have. There are many names...
Discipline in schools: what the law says you can and can’t...
There are various ways learners ought to be disciplined in schools, and corporal punishment is not one of them, having been banned since 1997....
MSF Field Worker Remembers The Rwandan Genocide: “The Hate That Came...
This year marks 24 years since the Rwandan genocide. More than a million people were killed during the 100 days of violence. The Rwandan...
Comic Con Africa – South Africa is Just the Beginning
On Tuesday afternoon, a huge announcement was teased by Telkom’s VS Games, an independent South African gaming brand. This is causing massive anticipation in...
Max Du Preez: On Fighting Against Apartheid As Media
From the late 70s to the early 90s, South Africa saw some truly turbulent times. Journalist and social commentator Max Du Preez was at...
Understanding listeriosis: South Africa’s latest disease outbreak
South Africa is in the midst of a large listeriosis outbreak, announced health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi on Tuesday, 5 December. The bacterial disease...
How Eating Badly During Ramadan Undoes The Benefits Of Fasting
From the middle of May until the middle of June, Muslims around the world will be abstaining from eating and drinking from sunrise and...
Three ways you can check your privilege and build social change
Power dynamics in social movements are important - they can either enable or disable them. In an article titled Tools for White Guys who...
What you need to know about extrajudicial killings in Kenya
When a Kenyan police officer shot and injured a young woman after a Wizkid concert on Saturday in Nairobi, it sparked anger among Kenyans....
Ending Extreme Poverty: We speak to three unemployed women to understand...
A new household survey has The National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (CRAM) recently revealed the extent of unemployment and hunger...
30 things you need to know about the Palestine-Israel conflict
There is no shortage of debate around the semantics of the Palestine-Israel conflict. SELIN KARA, a British-born human rights activist, put together this useful...
Your Palm Oil Consumption Is Killing Orangutans
This weekend a heartrending video that showed how palm oil growers wreak destruction on a baby orangutan's rainforest habitat went viral on social media....
How Thabo Mbeki helped Robert Mugabe steal an election
A number of Zimbabweans do not want South Africa or the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to intervene in the ongoing crisis. A citizen...
What I Learned About Freedom At The Oslo Freedom Forum In...
The Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) is a platform for struggles that have been opaqued and ignored, a gathering for disruption in the name of...
Why Is Everybody So Afraid Of DD Mabuza?
On Monday evening, Cyril Ramaphosa announced the first cabinet reshuffle of his tenure as president of South Africa. While there were many surprises and...
NASA discovered a life-sustaining solar system and we’re super excited
Forget a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It’s happening right now and in a galaxy a mere 40 light years...
