It seems three degrees from top international universities, including Oxford, are not enough to navigate this sea of hopelessness
Paballo Chauke
Paballo Chauke has a Bachelor of Social Sciences and an Honours in Environmental Geographical Science from the University of Cape Town as well as a Master’s in Biodiversity Conservation and Management from Oxford University. He has multi-trans-inter-disciplinary interests and currently works as a training co-ordinator. He also runs his own podcast Conversations with Chauke.
Posted inGender violence
Homophobia steals and kills
It is inhumane and unAfrican. People must interrogate themselves and their reasons for being cruel to the gay community
Posted inGeneral
The things we lost in the fire
The fight for equality is valid but the burning down of our universities is not the revolution or decolonisation any of us should want
Posted inHealth
Mam Sangweni: Branded a witch, burnt to death for being mentally ill
Africans need to recognise how certain of our long-held beliefs and misconceptions can turn deadly
Posted inGeneral
Our kakistocracy shows hard work is not all it is cracked up to be
There are myriad factors that determine one’s success, not least of all an enabling government
Posted inGeneral
Africa is slowly losing the power of praise poetry
The oral tradition, which has numerous functions in society, needs to be preserved for future generations
Posted inEquality, General, Lifestyle
Miss South Africa win has tribalism rearing its ugly head
Since the first Venda woman was crowned over the weekend, hateful comments have been spewed like bile on social media
Posted inEquality
Townships imprison black potential
This year marks 107 years since the Native Land Act — and the majority of black people are still locked into its stranglehold, pariahs in their own country
Posted inLifestyle
Taste, power and distinction: Politics on a plate
From an early age, I have viscerally known that lack of food was neither just nor fair
Posted inNews/Politics
Zimbabweans matter just as much as animals
Remember Cecil the Lion? At the intersection of history, race and animal controversies, our inaction is an indictment on our humanity
Posted inMedia
Black is not king, queen or peasant — black is complex
Although Beyoncé’s visuals are spectacularly beautiful, we are allowed to criticise ‘Black is King’ as reducing Africa for the gaze of the capitalist West