Grief
latest news & developmentsSam Turpin’s notes on grief
The legacy of photographer Gisèle Wulfsohn echoes through her son’s music as Sam Turpin confronts sorrow through art
Maria McCloy made Johannesburg feel possible
Friends, creatives and a city in mourning gathered to celebrate the woman who helped shape how Johannesburg saw itself after 1994.
Directors Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar push creative boundaries with Variations on a Theme
A poetic, genre-blurring film, Variations on a Theme excavates ancestral grief, memory and forgotten histories in a Northern Cape community still waiting for justice
How Me&B built joy into South African fashion
What begins as a search for the right dress for a difficult goodbye becomes a window into the heart and purpose behind Me&B, a South African label celebrating comfort, confidence…
Grief allowed, grants us room to heal
There is a way we find refuge from mourning. We distract ourselves. We move cities. We change jobs. We scroll endlessly. We convince ourselves that strength means silence. But…
Exploring the fabric of family and identity in Lebo Mazibuko’s Fabrics of Love
Lebo Mazibuko’s second novel, Fabrics of Love, looks at themes of family trauma, black womanhood, absent fathers and heritage
The God Edition | Losing my religion to find my faith
One writer’s journey through activism and grief led him back to the altar — on his own terms
Khaya Dlanga: Writing his way to inner peace
Writer confronts family, grief and recovery in his most vulnerable, honest book yet
Tuiskoms: Finding healing in humour
Series captures the complexity of grief, family and rediscovery through love
Loneliness: A chain that melts the blood inside veins
An unknown woman’s death, alone and far away, inspires Iman Rappetti to sing her own confessional song, a cri de coeur for connection
The Grief of Strangers
Through Umhlobo Wenene’s ‘Imiphanga’, writer Lidudumalingani remembers his mother connecting with the pain of others
Mind the toxic workplace
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
‘Touch: Sex, Sexuality and Sensuality’ — the erotic in action
Full to the point of rupture, Touch still leaves the reader yearning for more
‘The children cannot cope any more’: Suicide in Calvinia highlights lack of support for young
How Covid-19 has intensified the physical and emotional burdens placed on children’s shoulders.
The robot that allows Covid-19 patients human contact
A mental health pandemic: It’s far from ideal, but a dying mother was able to blow kisses to her child thanks to Khanya the robot