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Crowning glory: This year’s Miss South Africa Qhawekazi Mazaleni. Photo: Indirect Media

Miss SA 2025 Qhawekazi Mazaleni on pageantry, purpose and possibility

She’s a researcher, speech therapist, author — and now Miss South Africa. But for Qhawekazi Mazaleni, it’s all part of one calling

Photo by Phill Magakoe/AFP

Youth for Parliament: South Africa needs intergenerational leadership

Political parties and voters need to understand that a fundamental principle of democracy is that political systems should represent the desires and best interests of all citizens

A general view of EFF supporters protesting at Mall of Africa during the national shutdown of all Clicks outlets on 7 September 2020. (Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Represent the under-represented by championing who we as South Africans truly are

By not considering the heritage of the people advertising agencies communicate with, we create work and shape brands that are irrelevant, inappropriate, offensive and meaningless

Market stall selling clothing and accessories in the town center of Darling in the Western Cape region of South Africa. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

SMMEs call for inclusion in reviving the post-Covid tourism sector

In 2019 SMMEs provided employment to about 47% of the workforce, with their total economic output accounting for about 20% of GDP

Pale males: Michael Bloomberg and other leaders attend the Climate Action Summit at the UN in 2019. (Ludovic Marin/AFP)

Most climate science is written by white men

In deciding how the world responds to the climate crisis, policymakers rely on research that tends to be written predominantly by men in the Global North

Princess Shuri gives girls a science boost

The smart, fun and easy-going warrior scientist in the film ‘Wakanda’ challenges gender stereotypes

(John McCann/M&G)

Facts and figures: The proportion of women legislators worldwide

Twenty-six years after the Beijing Declaration, which set the target for reaching gender balance in political decision-making, women are still underrepresented across all levels…

A first communion in Usakos in the late 1930s. (Photo: Anneliese Scherz/Basler Afrika Bibliographien Scherz Collection)

Reframing women in Namibia’s early history of photography

Women photographers, and black African women photographers in particular, are largely absent from early histories of the medium. This is slowly changing

Playwright and actress Danai Gurira says she wrote because she wasn’t finding stories that she wanted to perform

A ‘necessity being the mother of invention’ type thing

Danai Gurira on theatre and representation