Black Excellence
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The architecture of speech: How to be heard
Southern Africa’s top speaker, Vus’umuzi Phakathi, unpacks the architecture of a powerful speech, mental illness, transformation and becoming visible in white spaces in an…
Giants: A story of faith, family and football
Giants is a stunning portrait of players, families and the emotional cost of chasing greatness on and off the field
Against ‘Black excellence’
Black exceptionalism reinforces negative racial stereotypes and obscures the systemic and structural barriers that black people face daily
Q&A Sessions: ‘I think I was born way before my time’ — Mamodupi Mohlala
The chief executive of the Estate Agency Affairs Board and the deputy chair of the SABC board, shares her take on retrenchments at the public broadcaster and reveals why she…
Daily moments of loneliness
We queer black men have learnt to hide ourselves and present a front of gay abandon
Whose black excellence is it?
‘Respectable’ blackness be damned – just surviving in a world that beats us down is a feat