We celebrate the first penis transplant but if we ignore the botched initiations behind it we’re just in one big dick contest, says Verashni Pillay.
Verashni Pillay unpacks the most powerful parts of the documentary "India’s Daughter", showing us the implications of being a woman in India.
Barely had the news landed and already South Africans had started on their favourite activity: myth-making in celebrity lives gone wrong.
Her last column was a plea for empathy and understanding, writes Verashni Pillay, not an attempt to drive white guilt.
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/ 23 February 2015
There’s a reason we can’t just “move on” and get over apartheid. Its effects are still very real for black South Africans, writes Verashni Pillay.
Former president Thabo Mbeki may have backtracked on his Sona comments, but SA needs more credible leaders to lead the charge, says Verashni Pillay.
Julius Malema could have proved his critics wrong but didn’t. Verashni Pillay lists five mistakes that have created such disgruntlement in the party.
As the country mourns Top Billing presenter Simba Mhere, it is time for all those who drink and drive to ask whether they are part of the problem.
We can have more honest conversations about race but we cannot reject forgiveness and its aim of reconciliation, writes Verashni Pillay.
What we cannot do in South Africa, and where Zelda la Grange made a mistake, is to allow others to define who we are and where we belong.