What happens if the basic income grant isn’t implemented correctly
At this moment, the basic income grant (BIG) is a matter of when and how and not if. There has been opposition to the...
Suspended students accuse UJ of criminalising campus protests
Suspended students at the University of Johannesburg have accused university management of heavy-handedness and of trampling the right to protests on campus, MBALI ZWANE...
Ebola: Entire households erased one by one
The Daily Vox is running a series of blogs written by DR STEFAN KRUGER, who is in Sierra Leone with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to help...
Medicines ‘not developed until they affect rich countries’
Tropical diseases, like Ebola and malaria, affect more than a billion people in almost 150 countries across the planet.
But only 1% of all medicines...
Love in the time of apartheid
Desmond and Leah Tutu recently renewed their wedding vows in celebration of their 60th anniversary. Being married for 60 years is a great feat...
UJ is seeing flames over renewed protests at their campuses
A student at the University of Johannesburg was arrested on Monday evening as he tried to board a taxi to go home after ongoing...
House of Hunger: redemption, spirituality and religion in a DUT adaptation...
The Durban University of Technology (DUT) Drama department recently presented a production of the House of Hunger, an adaptation of Dambudzo Marechera’s prodigious short...
South African short film, Five Tiger lifts veil on culture and...
Five Tiger is short fim about a sex worker who is trying to suppoer her family. It played at this year’s Sundance Film Festival....
Student protests continue to light up campuses across SA
There’s been a lot of activity in South African universities and colleges this week. MBALI PHALA sums up some of the activism going down...
Colour and conviviality in Córdoba’s famed patio festival
SHUBNUM KHAN was in Córdoba for the city's famed Patio Festival and came back with a kaleidoscope of colours and the smell of jasmine and...
#OPTrial: Five things we won’t miss about the end of the...
It has taken one year and seven months for the verdict to be delivered, Judge Thokozile Masipa has announced her ruling - Oscar Pistorius...
Is Ellen Tshabalala a “stupid liar”?
The Times went bold on Thursday decrying the fake qualifications scandal dogging SABC chairperson Ellen Tshabalala, with the headline, "What a stupid liar". Splashed...
What challenges are young South Africans really facing today?
We often hear complaints about the apathy and entitlement that young South Africans supposedly suffer from. Yet the #FeesMustFall movement, which gained international attention,...
10 things that happen when you’re exhausted
We all have days when we push ourselves too hard, when there are a million things to do, and no time to do them...
The DA is crying foul of campus shut downs
On Monday, The Mangosuthu University of Technology and the Pietermaritzburg campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) were shut down. The South African Union...
Aaisha’s Ramadaan diaries, Day 16: On understanding protest
Day 16: On understanding protest
When I was in third year, I sat in in a lecture where we debated the semantics of service delivery...
A letter from Zimbabwe, where the former foot soldier cannot speak
After last week's march of thousands in solidarity with President Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's war veterans are now having their turn at the wheel meeting...
UWC use homeground advantage to beat TUT in Varsity Football final
Heritage Day marked the season finale of the third Varsity Football tournament, where first-time finalists, University of the Western Cape (UWC), and the Tshwane...
How to navigate the rainy weather and help others #KZNFloods
Several parts of South Africa have been experiencing heavy rainfall which is set to continue well into the week. Rainy weather in South Africa...
Why 2014 was the year of the selfie
Last year, the Oxford English Dictionary announced "selfie" as its word of the year. The vaunted gatekeepers of the English language said, "It seems...
