South African hip hop pioneer Emile Jansen on Hip Hop in...
Emile Jansen is a pioneer of South African hip hop culture. Jansen is an artist, activist and now author of a book on the...
Barakat marks SA’s first Afrikaaps dialect film entry for the Oscars
The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) has submitted Barakat for the 94th Academy Awards in March 2022. The film was shot entirely in...
Differently-abled Northern Cape artist Nolan Vries creates wooden artwork
Nolan Vries is an artist from Steinkopf in the Northern Cape. He was in a car accident in 2005 and became a paraplegic as...
What is in a word – ableism
What is in a word, ableism, that is what. Yes, I can imagine the able bodied are busy trying to “get back to normal”...
Unpacking the so-called “Coloured” vote and why it’s not just a...
November 1 marks the day of the 2021 local government elections. The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) reported that 26.2-million South Africans are...
[REVIEW] Angeliena on Netflix is as kitschy as it is kak
Netflix has reported that western audiences love South African content. These audiences are three times more likely to travel here, after watching a local...
KhoiKhoi is the mother of all mother tongues says Jeffrey Oarasib
Jeffrey Oarasib has been elevating the preservation of the KhoiKhoi language through poetry, and rapping. He is a Khoi language reclamation artist and activist....
Oppie Yaart is a healing space and community garden
In Elsies River on the Cape Flats, Lucelle Campbell is part of a community garden, Oppie Yaart. Food security in South Africa is an...
Dr Simone Peters is bringing academic nuance to the coloured community
With her doctoral thesis, Dr Simone Peters aims to show an alternative narrative of ‘coloured’* identities, specifically ‘coloured’ men. Dr. Peters’ research, “Researching Race,...
Tackling anti-Blackness in the Coloured community
Coloured people are anti-Black. It is so inherent amongst Coloured people but it is the rot in our community most often overlooked. We have...
EXTRACT: But He Speaks So Well by Ivan Johnson
Journey with Ivan Johnson in this memoir of an identity crisis as the highspirited boy from a close-knit family on the Cape Flats comes...
#LGBQTILife: We need to be advocating for more inclusive shelters
The safety and protection of LGBTIQA+ folk should be at the forefront of our government’s planning agenda. Sadly it is not. Inclusive shelters in...
Barakat is a must-see South African film
The film Barakat is a love letter to an entire community.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-4WmEoxD8Q
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“Aunty” Fatima Sydow is here to teach you how to cook
Watching a social media video of Fatima Sydow cooking feels like being in the kitchen with a much-loved family member. From her infectious laughter...
Boeberaand is a celebration and a metaphor for life
Ramadan marks the month when Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset. During the fast, no food or drink is consumed – yes not even...
France and the hijab: The problem is France
By Iram Yousuf
Earlier this morning the French Senate passed an amendment that would make it illegal for girls to wear the headscarf worn by...
Asanda Ngoasheng: Why racial sensitivity and social justice training must begin...
During her time lecturing journalism at Wits University and Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) Asanda Ngoasheng became interested in developing a social justice...
Nazeer Sonday on the need for protecting agricultural land
When visiting Table Mountain, you will find flat land that runs between the mountain into another mountain scape. The flat land which used to...
Jwara! Induna’s Daughter: An extract
Born into privilege, Joyce PilisoSeroke questioned her environment. She grew up in a gated compound for the mining elite at Crown Mines but soon...
In his own words: Geralt Cloete on using the arts to...
Geralt Cloete is an MA student in Dramatic Arts at Wits University. He is from a small town in the Northern Cape. He honours...
