What happens when men can’t ask for help? These South African books offer raw, revealing answers
Teachers, especially those in schools where violence, drugs and gangsterism are a daily reality, need to become ‘trauma informed’
Lesedi Molefi’s memoir Patient 12A explores his battle with mental illness.
Many of Lebanon’s domestic migrant workers are haunted by memories of the Beirut port explosion four years ago
The second season of the series offers an expanded cast and more corporate dark deeds
‘We can deny our experience but our body remembers,’ Jeanne McElvaney wrote in her book, ‘Spirit Unbroken: Abby’s Story’
bell hooks’s refusal to ‘get in formation’ foregrounded healing as the foundation to a communal liberatory agenda
While people are taking mental health more seriously, the commodification of workers can turn a job into a toxic space that depletes more than it uplifts
How Covid-19 has intensified the physical and emotional burdens placed on children’s shoulders.
The past cannot be erased, but leaders can choose how to respond to it and how to forge a better future
Author and academic Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela spoke to Nicolene de Wee about the government’s failure to heal a broken country
Our country is wrapped in layers of trauma caused by violence, crime, chronic hunger, deprivations, broken families, exploitation, lack of opportunities, inequality and the omnipresence of death
‘Big’ days in sport — or even just weekends — almost always spell an increase in trauma and gender violence. One doctor remembers a day she had to put her compassion aside
Sandile Mkhize opens up how competition reinjected the drive back into his life
The 1990 documentary ‘South African Blues’ offers insight into the effects of exile on Jonas Gwangwa’s psyche
Lensman Sam Msibi’s memoir, The Accidental Frontline Journalist, reveals a life irrevocably bound to South Africa’s history
By making embroideries, women move beyond and challenge categories and labels of “being vulnerable” or being perceived as “marginalised”
Photographer Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo’s latest project, Slaghuis, is a recounting of the trauma he experienced growing up in his family’s tavern business
Politicians must desist from blaming the actions of the former oppressor for their own decisions
People sacrificed to achieve liberation but they continue to suffer from poverty and exclusion
Can children be made more psychologically ‘resilient’ to traumas?
‘I realised I needed to keep quiet because, if I didn’t, I was going to die’