Niren Tolsi's Profile

Niren Tolsi is a senior journalist with the Mail & Guardian.

His areas of interest include social justice; citizen mobilisation and state violence; protest; the constitution and the constitutional court and football.

Tolsi has been published in GQ, Marie Claire and Blu magazines, amongst others, and has appeared as an analyst on BBC news and the UK-based Guardian newspaper's podcasts.

He is currently completing his first novel.

Tolsi is a volunteer at the International Fluffers Support Group and has prevented many a tired wrist from being slashed.

Writing: Still a cultural weapon

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The Time of the Writer Festival has become a drawcard for regional literary boffs. Niren Tolsi caught up with some Zimbabweans attending the event.

The big stink over Durban beachfronts

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The stink caused by the withdrawal of Blue Flag status -- the international eco-stamp of approval for pristine beach management -- from several of eThekwini's beaches is a pointed reminder that municipal manager Mike Sutcliffe takes criticism very badly. Flags were lowered largely because of water-quality issues at the beaches.

Rocking for Jesus

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"Have the strength to practise what you preach and live what you believe," implores Whill van Staden, lead screamer of the metal-core Christian band He* Sha* Burn. His Saturday-night audience at the Harvest Church in suburban Durban North is a hyperactive mosh-pit of teenagers throwing themselves at a wall of furious guitars.

Risky business

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Niren Tolsi looks at a World Health Organisation study on the relationship between alcohol and injuries.

Asylum rights are of little use to the poor

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Mishehe Kalohua opens his asylum-seeker permit tenderly. The tattered page, held together by sticky-tape, has been opened and refolded so often that it has become as flimsy as cheap toilet paper. He has been waiting for well over a year for a response to his application for refugee status in the country.

Upside-down football, mate

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Wednesday afternoon and the sun beats down on a tattered strip of grass surrounded by embattled homes in the centre of KwaMashu township, north of Durban. Boy-men in excruciatingly tight shorts and sleeveless tops do violent pirouettes in the air -- usually because someone else is clobbering them.
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