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Lerato Tshabalala
Lerato Tshabalala is an author, podcaster, a tastemaker, unconscious bias advocate and the M&G Friday editor
Friday is a feeling: The art of acknowledging your worth
Friday editor Lerato Tshabalala is here to tell you people will question you, they’ll gaslight you and make you doubt your worth but remember who you are. You’re a masterpiece
Friday is a feeling | Call me old-fashioned but human beings are still valuable
AI has set time ticking for humanity
Friday is a feeling | Why too much pubic discourse can be a distraction
Bitchin’ about discourse: Forget ugly feet – we have real issues
Friday is a feeling | Met Gala fashion hall of fame
Red carpet event fashions memories
Friday is a feeling | Why our society is so comfortable with the invisibility of our elders, especially in fashion.
We might not win the ageing war but …
Friday is a Feeling | Celebrating 30 years of Boom Shaka and choosing love
Dare to love deeply – the risk is worth it
My love/hate relationship with Soweto
This is not a story unique to Joburg — the same happened in District Six in Cape Town — but Soweto is my lived experience so that’s what I’m going to focus on.
Time for healers to rise
We have to rely on ancient coding within us to figure out how to heal ourselves because expensive designer bags and cars are not working.
The Best Man: The Final Chapters
The series is a celebration of friendship, black love and ageing with sex appeal
Kiernan was here
Like all of us, deserved grace, forgiveness and kindness. I hope Kiernan knows no matter what, he was here, he was loved and he was Mega. His last words were: “Wherever I go, you…
Africa — your time is still now
Let’s make it our business to make creating art worthwhile for the artists who are committed to being here and lifting us higher
Giving up is not an option
Losing now doesn’t make you a loser
Ten things that bring me joy
The only reason I couldn’t go straight to joy is because peace is the only route to joy.
Let’s find our peace before we rest: Sibongile Khumalo, Oliver Mtukudzi, Hugh Masekela and Jonas Gwangwa
I have come to realise that death is the ultimate rest. It is the “peace” part where the problems start
Fewer breaks, less physical movement and less stillness eventually make “20twentyfree”
2023: Choose you – it’s the right thing to do