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Women runners face a barrage of abuse when they take to the road.

Why can’t we jog freely?

Its vulgarity and crudeness aside, the fact that abuse is hurled at women with such ease and nonchalance, and no fear of repercussion, made me angry.

A Somali man who burned to death when his shop was torched is buried last year in Athlone

The devil is in the execution of Africa’s ideas

Poor leadership has allowed xenophobia to bloom in South Africa, causing the country to fail Africa. Or so says Dr Nkosana Moyo.

The cosmetics industry has made billions out of people who think that being light or white is right.

Skin lighteners speak of a dark age

The cosmetics industry is still blatantly promoting the noxious idea that light is right.

The Oscar Pistorius trial is receiving saturation coverage

Oscar’s in focus, but Marikana is still a mystery

The public rushes pell-mell to pore over tales told by pale males, yet scorns deeper societal tragedies, writes Nikiwe Bikitsha.

A shadow of a man wearing a cowboy hat falls on a pillar as he enters the polling place at Wickenburg Community Centre in Wickenburg

Politicians won’t make a splash in Arizona

Arizona is a red state – red in rock and politics – and political red herrings are obscuring the issues in the desert state, writes Nikiwe Nikitsha.

I have just two weeks left in South Africa before a 10-month fellowship in the United States. I have been wondering what I will miss most about home.

Mnxim! Homesickness is when you can’t speak your mother tongue

Nikiwe Bikitsha wonders what she will miss about South Africa as she prepares to embark on a 10-month fellowship in the United States.

A worker at a textile factory in Mauritius. The island nation prides itself on its educated workforce.

ANC must get education right if it wants to mine richer seams

What has now been described interchangeably as a "crisis" or a "saga" should by now be escalated to "textbookgate", writes Nikiwe Bikitsha.

Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula says Beyonce Knowles won’t be performing at this year’s sports awards after all.

Beyonce is just not cricket, Mbaks

Fikile Mbalula’s overzealousness might get him into trouble. He really needs to channel it into the appropriate avenues, writes Nikiwe Bikitsha.

I have just two weeks left in South Africa before a 10-month fellowship in the United States. I have been wondering what I will miss most about home.

News anchors: When words that slip out are a slip up

In the fortnight of "The Spear" madness, did anyone spare a thought for the long-suffering news anchors who had the prickly task of telling the story?

The Goodman Gallery has appealed a ruling that children should be protected from the Spear painting.

Nikiwe Bikitsha: The polarising penis

Nikiwe Bikitsha explains how she feels about "The Spear", and how South Africans are not living up to the Constitution of our founding fathers.

The reconciliation between Jessica Dos Santos and Tshidi Thamane is unlikely to mask the extent of the depths to which they have plunged.

Too easily we lose sight of our cattle

Nikiwe Bikitsha describes how disturbing it was to watch Jessica Leandra dos Santos and Tshidi Thamana at their kiss-and-make-up press conference.

The bell tolls for thee

The bell tolls for thee, weak administrators

Much-needed road improvement has been bogged down by a lack of transparency and inadequate administration, argues Nikiwe Bikitsha.