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Editorial | Ntokozo Xaba: There’s nowhere to hide for black women in a country designed to suppress
This is the country in which falling in love may be a death sentence and romance is being stabbed to death, remains dismembered and stuffed into a suitcase to be left on the street
What has the M&G has been up to?
Hello from the other side
Editorial: We have all shielded powerful abusers
How many R Kellys are we harbouring? It’s a difficult question for all.
Editorial: Black women’s burden
Viewing black women as strong and resilient does them a disservice
Kenyan women are crushing stones — and stereotypes
Crushing stones is seen as ‘men’s work’. But an all-women gravel-making group in Sarwat Village is turning both stones and stereotypes into ashes
See people as individual humans, not as a race
We need to ingrain values of equality in education, businesses, society broadly and religious groups to see people
Please don’t celebrate me: Nothing hurts more
The Netflix series Sex Education shows that whether you’re celebrating or vilifying “the Other”, it’s all part of the same subjugation
Oh Shucks, an accidental blackface hero
Leon Schuster is having a few movies of his removed from Showmax and Phumlani Pikoli figures: what better time to reflect on this bruh than now?
There are reasons to reject identity politics
It is not empirically useful as an approach to understanding social reality
Film & TV: We don’t need more heroes, baby
What 2014 needs is a moratorium on people in tights. How about a nice musical instead?
No fun being blonde
Blondes purportedly have more fun, and as if that is not enough, the media tends to give them more attention than they do things that really matter.