Bongani Madondo on the fictional Naafians’s dark nights – in the shadow of a sacred mountain in the southwestern district of the Z’aniaa Republic.
After escaping the Nazis in Poland, it took Irene Klass 70 years to return to the ghetto and her home. This is her story.
By vandalising the holy text, two South African artists have created a new interpretation of it.
Present-day Nazarites have relaxed strictures around hair but Rastas resolutely hold on to their dreads.
It could have been the ketamine but, as Anonymous writes, he was won over after an extraordinary vision.
Twenty-five years ago in Venda, a man died for his beliefs at the hands of a vicious mob. Now he is poised to become South Africa’s first saint.
Does wearing the hijab mean you are holier than thou? Fatima Asmal finds a rich tapestry of views.
Symbols of faith are important to believers.
The serpent started it and Adam took a big bite but Eve is blamed and women have suffered ever since.
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I was raised in Durban as a Hindu and educated as an atheist but, in just a few minutes, my identity was completely different.
Over the Easter weekend many South Africans will mark Christ’s death – not just symbolically.
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