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The Academy’s new diversity criteria for the best picture Oscar will not effect structural change. We should rather strive for equality
By Sol Maria Fernandez Knight Growing up, my mother always told me that I was a special child. But then again many parents want their children…
Usually, when the term, ‘diversity’ is mentioned anywhere in South Africa, it denotes racial and/or cultural diversity, and it carries strong overtones of obligatory political…
When you travel a lot, as we do, to different parts of the world, encountering people from widely divergent cultures, one might think that you…
By Curwyn Mapaling Naturally, when you attend a symposium or a conference in another country, you expect to learn, to share, to travel, and to…
It was unfortunate that the excellent Mad Men was not awarded outstanding drama series at last night’s Emmy Awards. An opportunity missed to give the…
By Curwyn Mapaling “We were like best friends and yet we just met that day. It’s so cool that you could come from such different…
On September 24 we will once again celebrate Heritage Day in South Africa. This is a day on which South Africans across the spectrum are…
Some individuals are gregarious, and others are solitary. It is probably also the case that there is a group in-between these extremes – those people…