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From the late 70s to the early 90s, South Africa saw some truly turbulent times. Journalist and social commentator Max Du Preez was at the forefront of exposing the apartheid government’s evil schemes from the death squads to the…

Writers and poets find inspiration in different things, including life experiences and background. American-born writer and poet, Myesha Jenkins (69) finds hers in jazz music, love, and black women. She spoke to the Daily Vox at the 21st…

Currently enrolled at New York City University, 22-year-old Bronx-born writer and performer, Crystal Valentine’s work is inspired by intersectionality. Speaking at the 21st edition of Poetry Africa Festival, held at the University of…

The University of KwaZulu-Natal is hosting the 21st Poetry Africa Festival. The five-day event presents a line up of celebrated poets from across the globe. The Daily Vox asked 31-year-old writer, performer and a poet, Siphokazi Jonas what…

After attending the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, MALEBO GOLOLO needs to get something off her chest about the state of the arts in South Africa. It’s been a few weeks after the Grahamstown National Arts Festival and a week…

A Google search of June 16, 1976 will bring up a myriad of black and white pictures of the Soweto Uprising. Few of those images show women, or girl children, though they were crucial to the movement that exposed the brutality of the…

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s book, Exotic England: The Making of a Curious Nation is a study of immigrant integration in England, and the way different cultures have come to make it, supposedly, more culturally receptive. But, the author…

For us at The Daily Vox, it’s hard to imagine life without Twitter. So on Monday, when the hashtag #WhenIJoinedTwitter trended, we were joining in on the tweeps reminiscing about their first tweeting experiences and early naïveté on…

Google has given the infamous apartheid-era prison on Robben Island a modern twist: with Google Street View, you can now tour the prison from your laptop. At the height of apartheid, Robben Island was shrouded in secrecy. After…

On Sunday, thousands of people joined the 30th annual Gandhi Walk, held in Lenasia, to commemorate the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi. LINDOKUHLE NZUZA asked participants why they’d attended the walk, how they felt about the defacement of…

South Africa is still on a high after the success of the #RhodesMustFall movement in removing the statue of Cecil John Rhodes from the UCT campus – but we’re not the only country debating statues that are symbols of a painful past.…

Shaka Zulu is the most famous African ruler to ever walk South African soil. Popular stereotypes imposed on the modern-day Zulu people continue to be influenced by facts and myths about Shaka. We all know that Shaka remodeled the assegai,…

President Jacob Zuma  wowed South Africans during his reply to opposition parties on day three of the State of the Nation debate. The country was warm with support for Zuma, after he delivered an off-the-cuff history lesson on why Jan van…