The relationship between gender-based violence and the home in South Africa means that lockdown leaves women particularly vulnerable, yet the government has been largely silent on this issue
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The novel coronavirus has taken over South Africans’ lives in the past month. At the beginning of the month, the country was still hosting…
* * * The rain has such precise teeth. She nibbles down the paths and through the bushes, along the gutters and around my veranda…
Dear President Ramaphosa, I have two dozen questions for you, please feel free to answer them in the comments section below. 1. Where are the…
Imagine for a moment that the human race was extinct and that instead in its place several billion humanoid pigs had taken up residence on…
The worst thing about limitations on individual freedoms, rights and responsibilities is that they impinge upon your options, choices and decision-making. Take for example the…
If Eskom is bent, what is it going to take to straighten it out?
Black people are angry. White people are angry. Indian people are angry. Coloured people are angry. Chinese people are angry. It would seem that South…
There is a huge, and unjustified, prejudice towards homeopathic medicine in contemporary societies, and I suspect that it is driven by the financial interests of…
Dr Gloria Marsay People faced with adversities in developing countries struggle to bridge the gap between education and work. A key challenge for 21st century…