An extract from Nechama Brodie’s latest book, ‘Domestic Terror: Intimate Partner Violence in South Africa’
SA is in a rush to roll out its national GBV action plan. But as bureaucracy and the pandemic slow progress, violence against women continues unabated
This is an ode to the women whose names made it into news outlets from 2018 to 2020. It’s also a tribute to the faceless, nameless women whose stories remain untold.
Far from the world becoming secular, there will be almost six billion Christian and Muslim believers by 2050, according to a series of reports.
Protests against colonialism and fees made an impact, but it’s too soon to judge SA’s rise or fall.
A trio of Israeli films being shown around South Africa, explore the often invisible Palestinian and Israeli victims of armed conflict.
Comments on SA’s murder rate and the quality of life of white South Africans have been grossly exaggerated. Nechama Brodie tells us why.
There are no cheap frills on Nic Haralambous’s eye-catching men’s socks.
It’s been five years since their last appearance, but Konradski and Joe Dog are back: older, a little more jaded – and with fewer penises.
Fortunate Moyo — bartender, part-time musician and full-time jewellery apprentice at Keith White Designs — does "a lot of creative work".
Nechama Brodie picks 10 of the most interesting items on display at this year’s FoodWineDesign Fair, which takes place in Jo’burg this weekend.
Rockey Street was a beachhead of the new South Africa in the late Eighties and the Nineties, but it has seen a lot of changes since those heady days.
The Post Office has drawn on a local artist to celebrate South Africa’s contribution to astronomy.
Quilting, in some form or another, has been practised for thousands of years.
A South African human rights lawyer is one of the brains behind the international Maiyet fashion label.
This is not just a T-shirt. It is a map of Johannesburg as it could be — an invitation to plot the city with your own two feet.
Lerato Tshabalala is the new editor of <em>True Love </em>magazine and the host of the Beat 180 show on Rhythm100 radio.
Animal, mineral or vegetable? <b>Nechama Brodie</b> makes some suggestions to help you to find the answers to Christmas-present questions.
A quality butchery is paying close attention to its suppliers and where their meat comes from.
To dance pantsula, you must have all the right moves.
All cyclists are definitely not equal, as their attire, their bikes and their reasons for riding attest to.
Two developers are determined to bring
life back to ‘dead’ areas of inner-city
Johannesburg.
<b>Nechama Brodie</b> on how one word is standing in the way of people standing up for what is right.
Mr and Mr Stroebel are often referred to as the Posh ‘n Becks of the gay pageant world.
A local documentary about a beauty pageant for cross-dressers has a delicate, unexpected message.
We talk to Dario D’Angeli,chef patron of Cube Tasting Kitchen in Johannesburg.
Sailors are — like dragons, phoenix and giant sea turtles — creatures that lend themselves to myth and legend.
<i>Nechama Brodie</i> discovers the strange
alchemy of bone, stone, paper, paint and dust.
Russell Grant is co-owner of independent cinema The Bioscope and the Chalkboard Café, both at Main Street Life.
Paul Raphaely and his wife, Tracy Foulkes, are the team behind NoMU, a local range of food and lifestyle products.
There’s always room for new kitchen innovation, and the Wonderbag fits the bill perfectly.
Professor of anthropology Robert Blumenschine spends much of his time digging up the past, but finds time to enjoy the present.