There are currently more than 65-million refugees and displaced persons in the world. It is one of the biggest human rights crises of our time,…
Posts published by “Louise Ferreira”
Louise is a freelance journalist and writer living in Johannesburg. She is particularly interested in topics surrounding social justice and gender rights. She's on Twitter as @frrlou.
There just aren’t any racists nowadays. I know, I was shocked too. It would seem to me that if you take to Facebook to call…
As a child, I thought that grownups weren’t afraid of anything. They killed spiders. They didn’t believe in monsters and ghosts. They weren’t scared of…
The Sunday morning after Mumford & Sons’ first Pretoria show, I woke up to a newsfeed and timeline going berserk — but about Beyoncé rather…
There is a refrain that is often heard around the braai or the water cooler, and it goes like this: “Why should I have to…
Recently, I saw a Facebook post about an event where the keynote speech was titled “What would Mandela do?” The speech, unsurprisingly, criticised the recent…
Quite often, when I log on to Twitter, I’ll see comments like the following: “What are we angry about today? Did I miss today’s Twitter…
A good seven or eight years ago, when I was an undergraduate at the University of Cape Town, students arrived on campus one morning to…
On Tuesday, the South African Police Service sent a series of tweets detailing safety tips to avoid rape. In an extraordinarily ill-considered turn of phrase,…
This was supposed to be a weary and fairly snide thinkpiece lamenting the ridiculousness of having a Women’s Day, a Women’s Month, that is completely…