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Ntokozo Xaba was found dead with multiple stab wounds at her off-campus residence in Pretoria Gardens on 2 February, after her friends could not reach her over the phone.(Instagram/@ntokozoxaba_)

Editorial | Ntokozo Xaba: There’s nowhere to hide for black women in a country designed to suppress

This is the country in which falling in love may be a death sentence and romance is being stabbed to death, remains dismembered and stuffed into a suitcase to be left on the street

What has the M&G has been up to?

Hello from the other side

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Editorial: We have all shielded powerful abusers

How many R Kellys are we harbouring? It’s a difficult question for all.

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Editorial: Black women’s burden

Viewing black women as strong and resilient does them a disservice

This group of women from Tindiret sub-county in Kenya’s Nandi county crush stones (predominantly men’s work) to raise school fees for their children. (Tom Matoke/Nation Media Group)

Kenyan women are crushing stones — and stereotypes

Crushing stones is seen as ‘men’s work’. But an all-women gravel-making group in Sarwat Village is turning both stones and stereotypes into ashes

See people as individual humans, not as a race

We need to ingrain values of equality in education, businesses, society broadly and religious groups to see people

Best friends Otis (Asa Butterfield) and Eric (Ncuti Gutwa) lost in the woods is a fitting visual metaphor for the confusion of teenage sexual discovery in Sex Education.
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Please don’t celebrate me: Nothing hurts more

The Netflix series Sex Education shows that whether you’re celebrating or vilifying “the Other”, it’s all part of the same subjugation

Tragic comedy: Leon Schuster and the cast of  Mad Buddies, his 2012 movie.

Oh Shucks, an accidental blackface hero

Leon Schuster is having a few movies of his removed from Showmax and Phumlani Pikoli figures: what better time to reflect on this bruh than now?

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There are reasons to reject identity politics

It is not empirically useful as an approach to understanding social reality

Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel stars Ralph Fiennes as a concierge who is accused of murder.

Film & TV: We don’t need more heroes, baby

What 2014 needs is a moratorium on people in tights. How about a nice musical instead?

No fun being blonde

Blondes purportedly have more fun, and as if that is not enough, the media tends to give them more attention than they do things that really matter.