Sibahle Collection: A Doll For Everyone
European beauty standards continue to be pervasive in society with most products including toys in the consumer market reaffirming those standards. Sibahle Collection is...
Womxn are not safe, even in activist spaces
Recent revelations of alleged sexual misconduct at civil organisation Equal Education (EE) by three senior male staff members remind us that organisations and movements...
We need to talk about the violence of anti-Blackness in the...
The bigoted responses to local comedian Joey Rasdien's controversial comment at the Ilm Arts Festival are a stark reminder of the racism and prejudice within...
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...
Author Hafsah Faizal: “Representation Is Not A Fad”
New author Hafsah Faizal joins an illustrious list of authors writing representative fantasy books. Think Sabaa Tahir. Tomi Adeyemi. Renee Ahdieh. Her debut novel...
G@tvol Capetonian: What Of The Forgotten Ones? Pt. 1
Insouciance is a characteristic that's been lodged against coloured people of the Cape for years. In April 2018, however, G@tvol Capetonian arrived to put...
NWU Muslim Students Will Write Exams On Eid
Not all South African Muslims will be celebrating the culmination of the fasting month Ramadan on Friday with the religious holiday of Eid al...
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...
Ming-Cheau Lin Makes Sense Of A Confused Identity In ‘Yellow And...
Yellow And Confused is the latest release from cookbook author, blogger and storyteller Ming-Cheau Lin. It is a deeply personal and in-depth look into...
Mandela-Gandhi Peace Walk Comes To SA
A group of seven peace activists from various countries including South Africa, India and Japan have embarked on a peace walk across South Africa...
Boitumelo Rametsi: “I’m Not Afraid To Be Known As The Girl...
Boitumelo Rametsi believes in accepting your present-day self. The Soweto-born and based creative founded Spotted Beauty, a project that evolved from her personal Facebook...
Representation and Belonging: Why it matters to young South Africans
It was during my first week of orientation at university. In a place that felt strange with few people that looked like me. The...
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...
Mandela’s Pan-Africanism: In His Own Words
On 12 January 1962, seven months before his infamous life sentence that banished him to Robben Island, Nelson Mandela gave a speech at the...
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...
Mam’ Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s Legacy Is Still A Site Of Struggle
South Africa, is a country that is inhibited by ghosts trying to find their homes and it is a country that knows no justice....
Haji Mohamed Dawjee Writes What She Likes In Sorry Not Sorry
The title of Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko's compilation of writings called I Write What I Like has become a slogan of sorts. It...
“I felt suffocated in myself” – growing up dark in a...
Nabeelah (22) sits in a hotel courtyard. With her bronzed skin, almond-shaped eyes and crop of curls, Nabeelah is beautiful. Her looks can be...
Bunny Chows And Guptas: The Heritage Of South African Indians
The bunny chow: a dish ingrained in the fabric of South African culture. So much so that its successor, the kota, has been credited...
The MPL Network: Centering Women’s Experiences of Islamic Law
Debating justice in the Muslim family, a recent workshop organised by the Muslim Personal Law (MPL) Network at the University of Cape Town (UCT)...
