Latest articles on Trauma

How embroidery broke the silence around women’s apartheid trauma

Opinion Puleng Segalo - 13 Oct 2020

By making embroideries, women move beyond and challenge categories and labels of “being vulnerable” or being perceived as “marginalised”

The Portfolio: Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo

Article Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo - 7 May 2020

Photographer Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo's latest project, Slaghuis, is a recounting of the trauma he experienced growing up in his family’s tavern business

Traumatised societies need honest, self-aware leaders

Article William Gumede - 25 Aug 2019

Politicians must desist from blaming the actions of the former oppressor for their own decisions

Betrayal adds to apartheid trauma

Article Kim Wale - 22 Feb 2019

People sacrificed to achieve liberation but they continue to suffer from poverty and exclusion

Dr Sibu Qhogwana

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 31 Aug 2018

Clinical psychologist

Slice of life: Hijacked, but it felt like a movie

Article Tebogo Tshwane - 29 Mar 2018

'I realised I needed to keep quiet because, if I didn’t, I was going to die'

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ConCourt asked to rule that Zuma must testify for 10 days next year

emma balfour - 4 Dec 2020

It is Zondo's legal end game and will leave the former president, his supporters and those implicated in state capture to increasingly play fast and loose at imputing political motive to the commission

National

This is how the SIU catches crooks

Athandiwe Saba - 3 Dec 2020

Athandiwe Saba talked to the Special Investigating Unit’s Andy Mothibi about its caseload, including 1 000 Covid contracts

National

FNB dragged into bribery claims

khaya koko - 3 Dec 2020

Allegations of bribery against the bank’s chief executive, Jacques Celliers, thrown up in a separate court case

Press Releases

Special Reports

World Aids Day

special reports - 4 Dec 2020

Huge strides have been made, but the fight against HIV is far from over, and Covid-19 has disrupted testing and treatments

Special Reports

How to get the most money for your old iPhone towards a new one

special reports - 4 Dec 2020

Cash in your old iPhone to upgrade to a new one or get a reduced rate on your monthly contract from your service provider

Special Reports

Gender-Based Violence

special reports - 4 Dec 2020

In South Africa, women live in fear. It’s difficult to speak out against the patriarchal system, but many have done so, and continue to do so

Special Reports

POWER Business #OnTheMoney talks to Risenga Maluleke, South African Statistician-General

special reports - 4 Dec 2020

If Stats SA is to really have timely data that’s accurate and remains relevant then we need to make sure that the institution is strengthened

Special Reports

Dr Sumy Thomas: Deciphering the human puzzle, from the inside out

special reports - 4 Dec 2020

The Discovery Foundation MGH Fellowship Award recipient for 2020 will focus on internal medicine, particularly the endocrine system of patients affected by HIV

Special Reports

Touching lives through innovation

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

Africa has a high youth population that adapts to technology quickly, and this phenomenon is something which should be taken advantage of

Special Reports

Festive Reading

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

In The Whistleblowers, Mandy Wiener talks to a wide range of the people who have revealed corruption and malfeasance in government and business

Special Reports

Centre for Women & Gender Studies

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

The CWGS aims to resuscitate the histories of African women from all walks of life in an intellectual cleansing/ukuhlambulula of her story