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.

Documentary, mockumentary, monsters and more

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Niren Tolsi looks some of the documentary films to be featured at this year's Durban International Film Festival.

'Bring independent schools to standstill'

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The South African Democratic Teachers Association's KwaZulu-Natal secretary, Sipho "KK" Nkosi, ordered members to "close down all public and private schools and all nine FET [Further Education and Training] colleges", when he addressed marchers outside Durban's City Hall recently. This was despite assurances by Sadtu's national general secretary, Thulas Nxesi, that closing private schools is not union policy.

Into the heart of consumerist hell

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This year the cameras move away from emaciated African children, writes Niren Tolsi

Ndebele flirts with Scientology

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About 120 hand-picked learners in KwaZulu-Natal have participated in a pilot human rights workshop run by an organisation with direct links to the controversial Church of Scientology -- with the backing of the provincial government. A proposal to have the programme rolled out to the rest of KwaZulu-Natal's children is awaiting approval from the provincial legislature and the office of Premier Sbu Ndebele.

Fierce debate over Aids testing

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Dr Francois Venter has very little time: his controversial op-ed piece in a Sunday newspaper calling for mandatory HIV/Aids testing for all South Africans has made him much sought-after at the third South African Aids Conference in Durban: people are keen to debate the ethics around the issue.

State's cure for shack farms

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Critics of the KwaZulu-Natal Elimination and Prevention of Re-emergence of Slums Bill have drawn comparisons between it and the corralling and deportation of Jews in Nazi Germany. The Bill's defenders in government, however, consider it a “revolutionary” way of preventing slumlords from renting out shacks and controlling the proliferation of informal settlements.
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