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COMMENT Captain Marvel (portrayed by Brie Larson) is being hailed as the next best feminist superhero. It is the first woman-led movie out of the 21 movies Marvel series. Larson and the Marvel marketing team have been selling the movie…

Global Recycling Day happens on March 18.  Created in 2018 it celebrates the importance recycling plays in preserving the planet. It encourages people to think resource instead of waste when it comes to the goods around us. FATIMA MOOSA…

In this capitalist, highly technologised world we live in stress is a condition that affects most people.  It is often inescapable. While ongoing stress is a serious mental health condition, short intervals of stress supposedly can be…

The Cape Town International Animation Festival (CTIAF) kicks off on March 8. One of this year's main attractions from the festival is the South African premiere of Zog. The animation was a BBC Christmas special animated in Cape Town by…

It shouldn’t surprise you that there is a growing K-pop scene in South Africa. Even though K-pop has only been on the western radar for the past couple of years, South African fans have been fans since day one. SHAAZIA EBRAHIM and FATIMA…

With The Girl At St Agnes, South African streaming service Showmax hopes to compete with international original created content. The show which debuted January 31 has the highest unique numbers for the service according to Showmax. FATIMA…

We tried every type of straw at our disposal for the love of turtles. In the past few years, the world has become more aware of the effect plastic has on ocean life. But the final straw (excuse the pun) for single-use plastic straws came…

The clanging of prison doors, a single spotlight and Zane Meas on the stage. Starring Meas, the Market Theatre’s production of The Storyteller of Riverlea is the story of acclaimed poet, writer, and storyteller Chris van Wyk. The one-man…

February 1 marks World Read Aloud Day (WRAD). This is an international day which encourages people to read aloud to young people. Nal'ibali is a organisation that gets South Africans involved in the day. Around the world for the past ten…

Gillette's new advertisement has everyone touched in some way: some think it’s revolutionary in the face of the #MeToo movement and the fragile men are just hella salty. Haters are posting videos throwing away their razors because how…

Recently Buzzfeed News published an article about “Millennial Burnout” - the condition seeming to affect people born between the years 1980 and 2000. It describes a condition when seemingly easy tasks are considerably much difficult for…

While 2018 was the year for amazing movie releases (Remember Inxeba and Black Panther !)  2019 has some great releases coming out which is sure to see people flocking to the cinemas. Here are the ones we are most looking forward to.…

Weddings are every unmarried brown girls worst nightmare. There is something very annoying to brown aunties about a single, carefree brown girl. There is an insistence to get us hitched and miserable so we can chime in about spring cleaning…

COPA90 - a London-based football media company - recently launched the Creator Commissions initiative. Every month through the Commission the company gives grants to COPA90 fans and filmmakers to tell a story that they think the football…

European beauty standards continue to be pervasive in society with most products including toys in the consumer market reaffirming those standards. Sibahle Collection is the company that is trying to change that. The Daily Vox team spoke to…

When BTS launched the Love Myself campaign in November 2017 with the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Korea, its message was heard far and wide. With the campaign, expressed through the Love Yourself album…

A large number of Muslim women around the world wear headscarves as part of a partial fulfillment of the hijab.  Observing hijab is about much more than just dress code, and is by no means confined to women alone. Wearing the headscarf…

Social media has been abuzz in the last few months over celebrities who announce that they are becoming initiates of traditional healing, a process known as ukuthwasa. The latest one is Mshoza, who announced on Instagram that she was in an…

When Chinese-Canadian artist Wu Kris Yifan (stage name Kris Wu) released his first-ever solo album Antares the track November Rain went straight to number one leaving Ariana Grande - and Arianators - shook. this ariana grande and kris wu…

Caster Semenya has been on fire this year. In spite of all the obstacles she has had to face, Semenya has continued racking up the awards and flying the South African flag high. She is also one of 10 nominees for the 2018 IAAF…