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Zimbabwe’s villagers hope for an end to Grace Mugabe’s land grab
Seventeen years ago, hundreds of families were resettled onto a lush green estate in Mazowe, a farming district 35km north of Zimbabwe’s capital. In...
For student architects, mentorship and experience is key
Monday, 2 October, marked the World Architecture Day. This year, the city of eThekwini’s Umkhumbane Cultural and Heritage Museum won a prestigious Africa Architecture...
5 South African parks you should check out this National Parks Week
Get ready to be a tourist in your own country. September 18-22 is South Africa National Parks Week because heritage. For this week, 19...
Reed dance a front for corrupt tendencies
Last week it emerged that the eThekwini Municipality had set aside R1.6 million for the annual reed dance held at King Goodwill Zwelithini’s Enyokeni...
“I felt suffocated in myself” – growing up dark in a South African Indian...
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...
Remembering PAC anti-pass activist Philip Kgosana (1936-2017)
Former student leader and PAC activist Philip Kgosana has died. He was 81. Kgosana is best known for mobilising students in anti-pass protests in...
An atheist fasts for Lent – Week 1: Welcome to the Hunger Games
I’ve been fasting for Lent for 18 years. It started as a solidarity thing with my best friend, who has long since lapsed in...
Love in a time of white privilege
It was a dark and dreary day when I realised I loved you. Your unruly brown hair occasionally brushing over your eyelashes. Your piercing...
New series questions what it means to be a coloured person in SA
A hot new web series exploring coloured identity, Coloured Mentality, went live in January - and we're already obsessed. It garnered tens of thousands...
Zwarte Piet: a Dutch tradition of blackface lives on
On the evening of 5 December, many children and adults from around the Netherlands and Belgium will get home from school and work and...
It’s time we talk about the racist and oppressive nature of some queer spaces...
Gabriel Hoosain Khan has some words for those queer spaces that devalue and decentre cultures while simultaneously sexualising and fetishising them. Khan also describes...
A prayer for Wits, in four verses
The University of Witwatersrand will reopen on Monday 10 October, amidst more security, and a continuing impasse between students and management. Wits academic DANAI MUPOTSA is saying a...
#DecoloniseSchooling: we need to talk about the violence “elite” schools perpetuate
#StopRacismAtPretoriaGirlsHigh has reopened a can of worms for many of us who attended private and ex-model C schools. If I'm honest, this was likely...
Prof. Achille Mbembe on racism in South Africa in 2016 is ?
Speaking on Tuesday at a seminar hosted by the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism, and supported by the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation and the...
How my taxi ride differed from Sisonke Msimang’s Uber experience
WANDILE NGCAWENI reflects on how a taxi ride taught them about the lived realities of, and differences between ordinary South Africans.
On Saturday afternoons I...
Do South Africans want more local music on their radios?
Last week, the SABC announced that it will start playing 90% local music across all its radio stations, a decision which was welcomed by...
The Sophiatown Play Was An Opportunity For Us To Go Back To A Special...
"Ons dak nie, ons phola hierso". Almost three decades since its debut, the Malcolm Purky directed musical Sophiatown is back at the Market Theatre...
Activists across Africa call for Zuma’s resignation
On Friday, activists across Africa who call themselves "Africa's future" published an open letter to South African President Jacob Zuma. They believe he no...
Here’s why the US, UK and France need to stop selling arms to Saudi...
With multiple players, factions and proxy wars playing out on its territory, understanding the war in Yemen is not easy. However, what we do...
This librarian in KwaMashu says young people don’t take literature seriously
The opening session of the Time of the Writer festival, held at KwaMashu Library, drew an impressive crowd. Â The library, which opened in 1995,...
