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AFRICAN STORYTELLING

Vuyelwa Maluleke’s ‘The Blue Album’ and the language of return

A one-woman performance that confronts memory, violence and complicity, as Vuyelwa Maluleke reclaims language to tell a black queer township story on her own terms

  • Lesego Chepape
7 min read
Sun and solidarity: From left: Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Andries Nel, human-rights advocate and LGBTQIA+ activist Dr Thulani Mhlongo, Deputy Minister of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Steve Letsike; LGBTQIA+ and human-rights activist, and Dr Bev Ditsie. Photo: Angelo Louw
ACTIVISM

Pride, protest and power: Who really owns queer liberation in Joburg?

Amid boycotts and protests, queer Joburg found something radical at Zoo Lake — a Pride rooted in love, agency and authenticity

  • Heidi Thembeka Sincuba
  • Thembeka Heidi Sincuba
6 min read
A technician wearing a full body protection suit works inside a fume cabinet in a biosafety level 3 Covid-19 research laboratory at the African Health Research Institute (AHRI) in Durban. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
GENDER EQUALITY

At the intersection: How recognising multiple identities can improve science

World Science Forum panel of gender experts will explain why intersectionality is key to producing relevant, equitable and just science

  • Sharon Dell
8 min read
‘Vat and sit’: Men are the ones who benefit from domestic partnerships and have little motivation to enter into marriage. However, the constitutional court (below) recently ruled that opposite-sex life partners may inherit from their deceased partner’s estate. (IVASHstudio/Shutterstock & Madelene Cronjé)
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

Apex court judgment enables opposite-sex life partners to inherit intestate

Constitutional court ruling enables people in opposite-sex life partnerships to inherit from their deceased partner, even if they haven’t left a valid will

  • Mandi Mudarikwa, Charlene May and Qiqa Nkomo
7 min read
Enough: Women at a protest against gender-based violence at the JSE last month. Xenophobic sentiment and gender violence have become cemented in social consciousness, say the authors. (Guillem Sartorio/ AFP)
COUNTRY

Behind SA’s brutality

The structural violence in South Africa rose out of the invention and politicisation of difference

  • Asanda Benya
  • Faisal Garba
  • Simon Rakei
5 min read