By Refiloe Makama “Men are never ugly”. Nnu Ego makes this statement in Buchi Emecheta’s novel, The Joys of Motherhood, set during the colonial period in…
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By Refiloe Makama On the 19th of May 2018 the world watched the wedding ceremony of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at St George’s Chapel, Windsor…
By Mpho Buntse The rainbow nation, as South Africa is affectionately known, was abuzz with praise from international Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI)…
I am proud to have met and known a youth who has consciously chosen to become a man, a son who, in his own right,…
Recently a young man lost his penis. The member in question was lost during an initiation ritual and when he attempted to ask the elders…
South Africans have woken up each morning for the past month to the intimate politics of love (and loss) on their television screens and newspapers…
KwaZulu-Natal broke new ground recently. Two men, draped in traditional apparel, stood before family, friends and well-wishers. There was music, there was love and I…
By Anneke Meerkotter The first thing you are confronted with when you walk into the service section of the South African embassy in Harare is…
Something truly extraordinary is happening in the US labour market. At the beginning of 2010, it was revealed, that for the first time in the…
Getting married is a lot like buying a pair of shoes. Think about it. You go into the shoe store, you look around. Maybe you’re…