“Women should be respected, whatever the circumstances”
NOMZAMO MKHIZE* left home to look for employment in Durban but soon found herself embroiled in prostitution and drugs. She told Zilungile Mnisi how she...
“Our Perfect Wedding has lost its plot”
There was nothing perfect about Sunday’s episode of Our Perfect Wedding, which told the story of a man who met his wife when she...
“Higher education is not a privilege, it’s a constitutional right”
OFENTSE MAKGAE, 23, was recently awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to do his PhD at Oxford University in the UK in 2016. He told...
Homophobic violence is gender-based violence too
During the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, homophobic violence is rarely considered to be gendered. This erasure of lesbian women, gay men,...
Readers, authors show support for ill Binyavanga Wainaina
Beloved Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina is seriously ill following a stroke and has travelled to India for treatment. AAISHA DADI PATEL explains.
The author who...
Middle class outrage and Other People’s Weddings
Sunday's episode of Our Perfect Wedding showcased a relationship that began as statutory rape, showing not only how normalised rape culture is in South Africa, but also...
You can’t stop gender violence over these 16 days – but...
There are ways for ordinary people to help end sexual violence, but it's going to take a lot more than 16 days to do...
Five ways not to be that person during a drought
The pervasive drought in South Africa is believed to be the worst of its kind since 1982. And while most people have gotten the...
#FeesMustFall and how it showcased Indian South African privilege
Apartheid paradigms of race and class still cast a shadow over certain segments of the South African, Indian, Muslim community, and the Fees Must...
16 days of f***ing activism
Despite years of "16 days of activism", women still face rampant violence and discrimination at every turn, women-hating men are still given a free...
16 days of activism: What’s faith got to do with it?
As the 16 days of activism against gender violence begins, we need to question the role of all faiths and how they contribute to all...
Barry Bateman: Reporting on Israeli arrest warrants not agenda-driven
EWN reporter BARRY BATEMANÂ responds to a recent column by Ebrahim Fakir, published earlier this week on The Daily Vox.
From the outset, let me place...
Beasts of No Nation: An unflinching take on African conflict
Idris Elba shines in Beasts of No Nation, a flawed but deeply moving film about the coming of age of a child soldier in a...
CPUT’s military challenge to protesting students
The Cape Peninsula University of Technology's decision to move some of its exams to the Wingfield Military Base harkens back to the student protests...
Barry Bateman, the Israeli ambassador, and a throwback to apartheid
A sense of supremacy ingrained by a history of racism is hard to purge, says EBRAHIM FAKIR. And he argues it is particularly prevalent...
#FeesMustFall: A tale of two Witses – one for the rich,...
Wits University is made up of two separate and distinct universities - one for the rich and another for the poor - and university...
What we don’t talk about when we talk about rape
TO MOLEFE argues that whenever we speak about rape in hedged, legalistic prose, we simply reinforce rape culture.
"The alleged allegations of an alleged rape...
“Asihambi”: CPUT students protest against sudden closure of the institution
The Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) has suspended campus activities and asked students to vacate residences. But protestors say they aren’t going anywhere....
World Preemie Day: Help a tiny baby live another day
A heart-wrenching new video from the Newborns Trust, a special trust set up to support the neonatal unit at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape...
Does Destiny’s Ulo cover show it doesn’t really get #FeesMustFall?
Destiny magazine's choice for its December cover girl, namely Wits SRC president Nompendulo ‘Ulo’ Mkatshwa, has spurred furious debate about the face of #FeesMustFall....
