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Makhaya Ntini’s painful story is one of black people everywhere
I watched the likes of Graeme Smith during the Solidarity Cup played on Mandela Day, kneeling in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement which has spread across the world. It was an important symbolic gesture but I submit it is not enough. Sport doesn’t exist in a vacuum. The past week has been […]
Young should people be encouraged to tell their truths
The race relations issues currently unfolding in the United States of America around the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement have led me to interrogate what South Africans deem as acceptable and appropriate reaction to racism here at home. Whether we acknowledge it or not, everybody has vested interests in these events and conversations, and therefore […]
Understanding privilege in sport
In 2012, I travelled to the Eastern Cape as part of a Transformation in Sport series of storytelling the media company I worked for at the time was working on. I wanted to investigate Dale College – a school that’s nurtured some of the country’s top sports talent – and what they’d managed to achieve […]
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What are we really celebrating this Women’s Day?
When capitalism is in crisis, it turns on women, people of colour, LGBTI++ groups and other minority groups. We have seen this throughout history. When World War I and II ended globally, economies were in tatters and capitalism had to repress women to regain its edge. Men returned home to find women doing ‘men’s work’, […]
A vaccine for our GBV pandemic
This Women’s Month, the focus regrettably but rightfully falls on gender-based violence during lockdown. But unlike Covid-19, the GBV pandemic already has an effective treatment against it. And our schools and institutions of higher learning have a vital role to play in administering it. “A war being waged against the women and children of our […]
Access to reliable water supply key to women empowerment
It is August and Women’s Month again, but this year the celebration of Women’s Day on August 9 and Women’s Month throughout the month takes place under difficult conditions as the country is in the grip of Covid-19. The pandemic has led to more hardships for women. The pandemic has brought with it an increase […]
INNOVATION
South African edu-tech trailblazer Phemelo Segoe shares her insights
This Women’s Month we speak to digital education pioneer, Phemelo Segoe, the operations manager of Tuta-Me, who is helping to enable thousands of high...
EDUCATION
South African edu-tech trailblazer Phemelo Segoe shares her insights
This Women’s Month we speak to digital education pioneer, Phemelo Segoe, the operations manager of Tuta-Me, who is helping to enable thousands of high...
ECONOMICS
Offshore bank, investment and trust accounts, are these still allowed?
Unpacking the enigma around offshore starts with one simple certainty; nothing in the South African Income Tax or Reserve Bank regulations prohibits South Africans...
