Within the feminist movement, African feminism occupies a unique position that challenges disempowering constructs issuing from both Western and African paradigms. Contrary to the disinformation about ...

The spectre of South African impotence as Jacob Zuma brazenly defies an order from the highest court in the land, cheered on by an illegal mob gathered in contravention of lockdown rules the ...

An eerie chill went through me when I saw the news report. The remains of 215 children had been discovered in a mass grave in Canada. Just hours before I had been editing an article about an ...

In a previous article in the Mail & Guardian, I wrote about problems in the postdoctoral fellow system in South African universities. The nub of this critique was that universities, the department of ...

We humans have one thing in common: the will to live. It’s more than a love of life. It’s what German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer described as an irrational “blind incessant impulse without ...

As citizens, we want to believe there are laws in place that will protect us. In the context of a country with a Constitution that’s been lauded the world over as one of the most progressive of its ...

Mothers killing their children is not a new phenomenon, nor is it an “isolated case”, as the police in Timaru, New Zealand have maintained in an attempt to reassure the community. It is, however, a ...

It could be argued that the conceptualisation of gender equality is subjective and perhaps even relative because of the varied perspectives from which it is understood. For this reason, the debate ...

Gattaca, the 1997 dystopian science fiction film by Andrew Niccol, was prescient. It anticipated the inauguration of a newly class-stratified society based on genetics, the manipulation of genes to ...

Something’s a brewing, and something’s a bubbling in the flavour pot of world music and it comes from an unlikely source: South Korea. The K-pop/K-culture fare has spilled over into South Africa and ...

If you have ever been invited by an enthusiastic family member, friend, or work colleague to attend the graduation of a seminar that “transformed” their life, but they refused to provide details about ...

When it comes to the complex history and rich culture of the African continent, the narrative has often been over-simplified, offering a homogeneous and unidimensional depiction of the world’s second ...