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Love of food in places we love

Article Khadija Patel - 29 Apr 2020

The connection between the preparation, consumption and sharing of food is a sacred one

Mother of Azania carried love in her heart

Article Youlendree Appasamy - 18 Apr 2019

Were she alive, she would have shared the award with everybody

Memories exiled to a room

Article Mashadi Kekana - 8 Mar 2019

We recall some details so sharply and others hide away — like those of people we loved

An ode to the matriarch

Article Tshepang Molisana - 21 Dec 2017

'Women like my grandmother held up half the sky with simple food, the spirit of celebration and an open kitchen door'

Slice of life: Making tea with love

Article Mashadi Kekana - 29 Sep 2017

Palesa Sauhatsi lost her grandfather in May 2015 and misses making him tea

The holidays: A queer time of year

Article Carl Collison - 14 Dec 2016

Going to see family during the festive season is often doubly troubling for LGBTI people.

Rural reflections: notes on time well-spent

Article bogdan TagDiv - 11 Jul 2016

A holiday with my grandmother shows me another way of life, one with different ways of being.

Nuclear family in meltdown (but the kids will be okay)

Article Staff Reporter - 21 Aug 2015

Test tubes, surrogates, single, lesbian and - the views of family are shifting.Children turn out just fine, as long as they are loved and kept safe.

Be a man: Use birth control

Analysis Kagure Mugo - 11 Jun 2015

When it comes to family planning and birth control, the burden most often falls on women.

Invaluable lessons in life from my dear Uncle Lukas

Article Staff Reporter - 5 Mar 2015

From schooling to career advice and transport usage, Uncle Lukas is a man of staunch principles.

Mzansi story of love, loss and forgetting

Article bogdan TagDiv - 11 Dec 2014

A family's history revealed by daughter Bridget Radebe and mother Betty Maluleka, who suffers from dementia, as told to and interpreted by Ekow Duker.

Clay depicts hope, energy and growth

Article bogdan TagDiv - 19 Jul 2013

An Andile Dyalvane pot is one of the commissioned works for the Adelaide Tambo Collection.

Myth of the traditional family

Article bogdan TagDiv - 17 May 2012

Throughout history and most societies marriage has always been the union of a man and woman. It's a familiar claim and it's wrong, says George Monbiot

Children: the best thing since Prozac

Article bogdan TagDiv - 11 Mar 2011

Having experienced depression, the writer feared motherhood would make the condition worse. But, for her, family life has had the opposite effect.

Opening the generation curtain

Article Staff Reporter - 7 Jan 2011

At least once a year many of us make the great trek back home writes <b>Milisuthando Bongela</b>.

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