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    Mauritius sets the example for Africa by eradicating tampon tax

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    The battle against the 15% tampon tax in Mauritius has been won. Tampon tax is the government tax on feminine hygiene products, and is essentially a...

    #StopRacismAtPretoriaGirlsHigh is just one example of the frustration of black learners...

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    Where the blue of heaven is deepest. Every person who attended Pretoria High School for Girls knows the opening to the school song. But...

    Poem For Alexandra

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    By PRYZ da poet Where do I begin to describe Alexandra,  A place where lots of things happen  A place where there is struggle from day to...

    MSF Field Worker Remembers The Rwandan Genocide: “The Hate That Came...

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    This year marks 24 years since the Rwandan genocide. More than a million people were killed during the 100 days of violence. The Rwandan...

    Contentious Chinese cotton sparks celebs’ brand boycott

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    Lay Zhang, Jackson Wang and Wang Yibo are three well-known celebrities from China and Hong Kong. But in March, the trio made headlines for...

    Memory Banda On The Struggle Of The Girl Child In Malawi

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    There is fire in the eyes of Memory Banda when she talks about girls rights in her home country of Malawi. The 22-year-old has...

    Halo Project SA Wants To Empower Drug And Aids Centre

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    Within the streets of Meadowlands, Soweto the South African Drug and Aids Council (SADAAC) can be found. The centre was founded by Freddie Sithole...

    Woman As Citizen – (As Forgotten)

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    COMMENT In the wake of gender-based violence, a number of men in the Republic have taken to social media and other platforms; decrying the actions...

    Schoolchildren will go hungry without infrastructure for feeding schemes

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    Reflecting on a recent visit to a rural school in the Northern Cape, ActionAid South Africa director, Fatima Shabodien, says school feeding schemes are...

    Who is Ahed Tamimi and why should South Africans care?

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    The trip I took to Palestine in December 2014 granted me the opportunity to better understand what life under Israeli occupation looked and felt...

    Cape Town wildfires: Here’s how you can help

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    As wildfires in Cape Town continue, forcing evacuations in several areas, many of us are watching in horror, feeling helpless. There is however an...

    “There is something sick in the area”

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    Mpho Tshele is a 61-year-old grandmother living in Snake Park, in the heart of Soweto. She looks after her 11-old-grandson, Koketso, who suffers from...

    Bunny Chows And Guptas: The Heritage Of South African Indians

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    The bunny chow: a dish ingrained in the fabric of South African culture. So much so that its successor, the kota, has been credited...

    Nazeer Sonday on the need for protecting agricultural land

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    When visiting Table Mountain, you will find flat land that runs between the mountain into another mountain scape. The flat land which used to...

    Your Palm Oil Consumption Is Killing Orangutans

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    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....

    Apartheid Denialism And Freedom Of Speech

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    Why is apartheid denialism in South Africa not a crime? More to the point, why is apartheid denialism not even mentioned in the bill...

    Help The Homeless Keep Warm This Winter

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    Winter is just a few days away, and we have all seen homeless people in our areas and neighbourhoods. According to the Human Sciences...

    30 things you need to know about the Palestine-Israel conflict

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    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...

    ‘It is wrong when people only give charity on Mandela Day’

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    With Nelson Mandela International Day coming up, many people are looking for a way to spend 67 minutes for Tata - from painting orphanages...

    State capture and security problems are to blame for CT train...

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    Metrorail Cape Town has been plagued by many problems of late. On Monday, several trains were cancelled on the central line, leaving thousands of...