UN: Inequalities prolong Aids pandemic
/ 30 November 2022

UN: Inequalities prolong Aids pandemic

On current trends, the world will not meet agreed global targets on Aids, the new UNAids report, Dangerous Inequalities, shows. Urgent action to disrupt the power imbalance of patriarchy can get the Aids response on track

Editorial: Morally bankrupt ANC should step aside
/ 29 July 2022

Editorial: Morally bankrupt ANC should step aside

The ANC, heads to this weekend’s policy conference more concerned with pushing back on attempts to improve governance than finding solutions to the many structural fault lines that have been so crudely exposed by our economic deterioration since the outbreak of the pandemic

Redefining ‘Madam’
/ 9 March 2022

Redefining ‘Madam’

Growing up, no black woman worth her salt would take kindly to being referred to as a “Madam”. The term Madam was reserved for white women who had a black domestic worker. Being called a Madam was linked to unsavoury connotations such as laziness (unwillingness to perform supposedly women-like duties), incompetence (inability to perform everyday […]