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From ‘academic boys’ to ‘sex-jaros’: What it means to be a black boy in a South African township

Health Malose Langa - 28 Jul 2020

Toxic masculinities help drive everything from HIV infection rates to gender-based violence. But before we ask, what does it mean to be a ‘man’ in South Africa, should we wonder what it’s like to be a boy?

Slice of life: I’m a ‘neguinho’ who is really good

Article Carl Collison - 28 Sep 2018

'I don’t blame them, really, because doing ballet — especially for men — is not really part of our culture'

Watch where you put your hands, oaf !

Article Staff Reporter - 31 Aug 2018

Men need to overhaul learnt views of their power over and rights to women

Why is male rage sacrosanct?

Article Gugulethu Mhlungu - 25 May 2018

Hurt people hurt people, but one trauma should never justify another. Men are supposed to be understood;the rest of us must simply understand

Usable traditions: The queering of Xhosa men’s initiation

Article Staff Reporter - 20 Oct 2017

Initiation practices might offer a moment of self-discovery for queer Xhosa men

Meeting men halfway: Clinics are going mobile to reach the toughest patients

Article Josephine Chinele - 18 Oct 2017

For decades, we’ve struggled to solve the riddle: How do you get reluctant men to test for HIV. Could we finally have an answer?

Exposing a culture’s wounds

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It’s been fêted around the world, but Inxeba’s smashed stereotypes will cause a stir locally

Questions we should be asking ourselves

Article Staff Reporter - 2 Jun 2017

Honest answers to gender and sexual expression

Bridging the gap between ‘academese’ and our mother tongues

Article Pontsho Pilane - 2 Jun 2017

"A little rummaging through history shows us that the earliest forms of African feminism existed in pre-colonial Africa"

Beware of the progressive patriarch

Article Nigel Patel - 2 Jun 2017

"For the progressive patriarch, the sole political priority in South Africa is achieving racial equality."

OH DEAR GOD, PLEASE! NOT ANOTHER RAPE POEM

Article Staff Reporter - 2 Jun 2017

A poem by Koleka Putuma

In whose shadow will my boy be grown?

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 2 Jun 2017

As parents and men conditioned by our destructive society, how do we better our children’s experiences?

The war at home

Article Zukiswa Wanner - 2 Jun 2017

I live in Kenya but I can’t return to South Africa until women can walk freely on its streets without being harassed, raped or killed

What will save us?

Article Staff Reporter - 2 Jun 2017

"What is the bro code for learning, unlearning and relearning humanity? Must we be called ugly and trash before we begin to see the light?"

If we are going to fight back, we can’t use men’s tools

Article Staff Reporter - 2 Jun 2017

"The fight ahead of us is unprecedented because it’s not a government, a masked criminal, a different ethnic or religious group “out there”."

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From ‘academic boys’ to ‘sex-jaros’: What it means to be a black boy in a South African township

Slice of life: I’m a ‘neguinho’ who is really good

Watch where you put your hands, oaf !

Why is male rage sacrosanct?

Usable traditions: The queering of Xhosa men’s initiation

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OH DEAR GOD, PLEASE! NOT ANOTHER RAPE POEM

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