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The Strathyre home has been a refuge for abandoned and abused girls for nearly 50 years, but it may soon close due to a funding crisis.
Anti-Americanism and Sinophobia are a chimera that our government should help to disabuse our professional protesters of, writes Khadija Magardie.
By Jove, who would’ve thought it? That with our delicate constitutions and proneness to osteomyelitis, we’d still be allowed. Into the army, that is. We? Girls, that is. But just…
And there I stood: eyes downcast, in all my crimson shame. As my eyes welled with the pools of my disgrace, and the tips of my (well-covered) ears burned, I felt myself…
Dubya couldn’t have been very happy when he was told his nemesis may have gone out smiling. Freshly satiated with an alcohol-free nightcap, Psalm 23 at his side, and about to lay…
I’ve always believed the military is no place for pussies (feminist gallery: exeunt omnes). And when countries steeped in centuries-old traditions and ideas regarding the place…
”There wasn’t one handy.” And so it came to pass that The Elephant himself, u-Msholozi, departed the real world. He is now said to be keeping company with the Tooth Fairy and the…
A lot happened during the time the so-called Muslim faithful set about their holy task of riot, pillage and arson over the notoriously unfunny caricatures of Islam’s last…
Some of the lesser martial arts conjure up images of sterile white suits; of politeness and Zen garden sensibility. The world of kung-fu is about Buddha figurines with red lips,…
That’s what happens when the gentry try to behave like common people. They themselves become common. But unlike August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, the same could hardly be said of…
Men desperate for coitus but sans any relationship with women could soon be trembling in their Grasshoppers/ veldskoens/ama-All-Stars. That’s if an enterprising local…
‘To floss, or not to floss?” That is the question doing the rounds in the lingerie world. The tabloids are having a field day splashing pert posteriors across their pages. And…
”It’s wonderful that we have such a fabulously celebrated, all-embracing Constitution, but sometimes it can work against us women. Like the Recognition of African Customary…
The problem with The Vagina Monologues is that a show about the worship of a sexual organ is easily lost on those of us who want to understand the deeper meaning behind men’s,…
The silly season is over… Thank God. Now it will take a whole calendar year before again being subjected to corny Boney M and mince-pie jollity. And I, finding myself newly…
I have never been much of a fan of euphemism — it always conjures up images of a cucumber-sandwich society. More so in a multicultural environment like ours, where not everyone…
Instead of being admitted to a clinic for a surgical abortion, women may soon have the option of a ”take-home” pill to end a pregnancy. The drug will be piloted at five…
Foreigners from non-African countries have been living harassment-free in South Africa for years, reports Khadija Magardie
A medium-sized, flesh-coloured pair of pantyhose, valued at R7,99, is wreaking havoc on the lives of a Gauteng family.
Barriers to obtaining abortions in government hospitals are forcing women into the arms of the private health care sector and backstreet abortionists.
