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Political is personal: Helen Zille’s latest book details her lived experiences, which our reviewer would rather read in an autobiography. (Skyler Reid)
BLACK TWITTER

Pope Zille speaks her truth: Go woke stay broke

Helen Zille decries using ‘lived experience’ in woke arguments, but does so herself in her latest book, says Shaun de Waal

  • Shaun De Waal
6 min read
For foreign-hosted content, South African citizens lack a clear framework to protect their online privacy and hold others to account
ADAM CATZAVELOS

Internet freedom thrives in SA

South Africa has been ranked 8th in internet freedom out of 65 countries but, as Gigaba will know this week, we might be enjoying it too much

  • Jacques Coetzee
6 min read
Milisuthando (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/ M&G)
BLACK TWITTER

Recalibrating our responses

"In South Africa, fighting occupies the space between everything".

  • Milisuthando Bongela
6 min read
Artist ruby onyinyechi amanze’s presence recalls the shape-shifting burlesque dancer played by Rihanna in Luc Besson’s recent 28th-century intergalactic escapade Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
BANTING DIET

DA racism tests and five other news events that could almost be true

In keeping with long-standing tradition, here’s our annual Not the Mail & Guardian, a fanciful collection of news events.

  • Staff Reporter
8 min read
A Twitter Music app will be launched for iOS devices later this month
BLACK TWITTER

Black Twitter: ‘Challenging white mainstream hegemony’

Is black Twitter a platform for unity or is it merely a "reproduction of a long history of black people being made the subject of research"?

  • Kwanele Sosibo
4 min read