Jeffrey Rakabe ponders transformation, trauma and tradition in a debut that challenges what it means to grow up
The designer’s The Arrival opens South Africa Fashion Week, proving that fashion can be both a mirror and a vessel
Land is more than a physical resource — it is the foundation of identity, freedom and dignity in places as far-flung as North America, Australia and New Zealand to Gaza, India and Brazil.
One boy. Three matriarchs. Endless food, love, and drama. A memoir that’s as touching as it is tasty
Artist explores the way that personal history challenges the concepts of home and belonging
Teachers must ensure mental health and create relevance for children of the digital age who know about identity diversity, global crises and an uncertain world
Teachers must ensure mental health and create relevance for children of the digital age who know about identity diversity, global crises and an uncertain world
Our collective identity has once again arrived at a seminal point in our history
Because populism is a pre-political idea, it can fracture the sense of collective identity that is necessary to uphold a liberal democracy, especially in nations with conflict in their histories
Showmax’s ‘Sex in Afrikaans’ explores the continued taboo of representing sex in the Afrikaans language
Beauty pageants are political. Calling these women role models, talking about their natural hair, their ambition, their voice is all political. Representing a country on a global stage is also political
Cleopatra Kambugu is the first Ugandan whose transition has been recognised by the state
Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book, ‘Neither Settler nor Native’ asks a political question: Rights for whom?
The Hollywood star speaks about misspelling her name, Zimbabwe’s political crisis and her love of sadza
Culinary activists such as Zayaan Khan and Tapiwa Guzha are prompting us to revisit and reclaim familiar, familial and traditional identities
Parents think it benefits children to lose their African language, but it leaves them lost instead
Christian Life Private School barred a pupil because he wore a bracelet with cultural significance, but the decision — even in the private sphere — is constitutionally wrong
The teenagers, who clearly understood that race is fluid – some even changed their identity – felt shunned. If race is socially constructed, they should not be ignored.
The structural violence in South Africa rose out
of the invention and politicisation of difference
It is a leap to claim that identity-based oppressions necessitate a politics of identity
It is not empirically useful as an approach to understanding social reality
Just because you choose to reject an identity you are born with, does not mean it is not there
‘I kept feeling like I was inadequate. Whenever anything bad happened to me, I would attribute it to my dark skin’
According to Unicef, the births of about 230-million children under the age of five have never been registered
After all we have been through, we still don’t get to define our own continent. This holds us back
Understanding who we coloured people are and not trying to fit into one race group or another is the way to the future
‘People always ask how can I look like a white person, but not be white’
Queer people had only the heterosexual space for early lessons in sexual identity
This is a story of a man wrestling with his identity and the pain caused by family secrets
‘Mixed Space’ is a short film that delves, through the participants, into mixed-race people’s views of themselves and identities given to them
Readers write in about banks, identity, and the ANC.
To question someone’s authority to speak on their own identity and inwardness is truly questionable.