Covid-19 and its socioeconomic consequences has emphasised people’s need for these places: research, biodiversity conservation, plants for food, health and cultural purposes, and open space in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Suntosh Pillay: Having worked in the United Nations for almost 10 years, I was hopeful that you might provide us with unique insights about the role of the UN in resolving major conflicts, such as the ...

It’s reasonable to argue that the EFF’s hyper-focus on race is largely opportunistic. Julius Malema and his executive leadership are brilliant politicians, aware that racial injustice burns brighter ...

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 ...

Simate Simate is a Zambian living with deafblindness. He is a disability rights advocate for the inclusion of deafblindness in Africa, national coordinator of the Deafblind Zambia Programme and the ...

These are lyrics from Umanji’s 1999 hit song Moloi which translates to “The witch” or simply “witch”. A loose translation of some of the lines is: “When they see an old woman/grandmother, being ugly, ...

While outgoing US President Trump has repeated tantrums at the prospect of leaving the White House, a lesson in democracy from Malawi is worth paying closer attention 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 ...

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 ...

In the last few weeks, the rise of the #BlackLivesMatter movement across the globe has sparked mass protest action, which has also involved the toppling, removal and open criticism of statues ...