EXTRACT: Black Girl’s Guide to Corporate South Africa by Lindelwa Skenjana
In this timely memoir-/guide, young corporate professional Lindelwa Skenjana shares insights from her own experience and those of other black women at various stages...
Lack-cess to education – the cycle of abuse against South African...
Seven postgraduate students from Wits University’s Critical Diversity Studies department write about the perennial funding crisis in higher education in South Africa. They argue...
Extract: Nation on the Couch
Professor Wahbie Long’s Nation on the Couch explores life in our beloved country through the lens of psychoanalysis. By focusing on the idea of...
A casting conundrum: who plays the supporting roles in South Africa:...
Movies and series have helped many of us to get through the pandemic, keeping us entertained and distracted. But if you pause Netflix for...
“Tawedes” to an origin language as South Africa gets its first...
Some people may consider KhoiKhoi a forgotten language - but in reality, it’s used across South Africa every day. Words like dagga (“cannabis”), and...
University protests lull – but funding issues persist
There seems to be a lull in student protest action across South Africa - but the issues that sparked this year’s protests persist. Many...
Ten times the Democratic Alliance was kak
Like most of us, I enjoy a good internet list. So there I was, reading about ten celebrity break-ups that broke us - but...
#SONA2021: A fatigued Ramaphosa urges South Africa to march forward together
President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) on February 11. It was markedly different from previous SONAs. The parliamentary...
The SAPS is too caught up in its own contradictions to...
The lockdown protests in Cape Town offered us many laughs but it also showed that the police do know how to approach protests with...
Uganda Elections: People are scared but they are willing to vote
On January 14, people in Uganda head to the polls to vote in the country’s elections. But with internet shutdowns, opposition intimidation and a...
This is what Biden must do to reverse some of Trump’s...
Right now, it looks like the Trump administration is going nowhere. They are stomping their feet, refusing to concede and obstructing the process of...
Kamala Harris: Representation does not equal better policies
On Saturday evening, news sites in the United States of America (USA) announced that Joe Biden would be the next president of the country....
Riz Ahmed is searching for home in Mogul Mowgli
With the release of the film, Mogul Mowgli, Riz Ahmed cinematises the message from his album, The Long Goodbye and Saadat Hasan Manto’s short...
South Africa’s first feminist television show launches
To kick off the month of November, South Africans will be able to watch the country’s “first feminist television show”. Titled “It’s a Feminist...
Here’s what Trump and Biden have said about South Africa
The US is voting and there is just no escaping it. While it seems like the elections won’t make much of a difference to...
#LGBQTILife: Navigating life in student leadership and the church as a...
We spoke to Lance-Selae August, a 27 year old student leader at UCT. They are an Honours student in Theatre and Performance, and identify...
Binwe Adebayo on writing about Black Love
Binwe Adebayo, writer, founder and managing director of baby mogul has contributed to a new collection of essays. Notes on Love is a collection...
Extract from Andy Kawa’s book about getting justice for women
Kwanele, Enough! My Battle with the South African Police Service to get Justice for Women is businessperson Andy Kawa’s story. In 2010, she was...
TL;DR: A roundup of SRC elections from across the country
Even with the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, politics must go on. Around the country, universities adapted the elections for the 2020/2021 student representative council...
The Nigeria SARS and Namibia GBV protests, explained
For almost two weeks, Nigerians have been protesting to #EndSARS. Thousands of people joined the demonstrations across the country, raising their voices against police...
