Society

Soweto Pride claims the space

Hundreds of people gathered at the Credo Mutwa Cultural Village in Soweto for the ninth annual Soweto Pride march on Saturday September 28 2013. The organisers, the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW), say that the march is a platform for LGBTI people from Soweto and the surrounding townships and cities to reclaim public spaces.

Roger Young

News | 2 October 2013

Local artists support Zimbabwean musicians

On 29 September, Baran's Restaurant hosted an “African heritage fundraising show” for an African soul reggae band called The Zealots.

Nwabisa Pondoyi

News | 1 October 2013

Renowned Palestinian poet performs in Khayelitsha

On 24 September 2013, Remi Kanazi, a world-renowned Palestinian-American performance poet, gave a performance of his poetry in Khayelitsha in Cape Town. Kanazi’s poetry covers a range of topics, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Islamophobia and imperialism.

Staff writer

News | 30 September 2013

Taste of my heritage

NdinguMambhathane, uTshaya, uMxesibe, uMgxubane, Khandanyawana, uMam’Khuma, Nxele, Bhaca, isizukulwana sika Ntswayibana noBhakaqana.

Mary-Anne Gontsana

Opinion | 23 September 2013

Ties that bind

For me heritage goes deeper than the colour of my skin. It starts from the very beginning, my birth.

Nwabisa Pondoyi

Opinion | 23 September 2013

This story is called…

A little north west of the road which runs from Ixopo into the hills of KwaZulu-Natal immortalised by Alan Paton, is a quiet, slow-moving enclave. The Kamberg Valley, just 78 kilometres east of Lesotho, kneels before the Drakensberg mountain range, crimped by the wind and harshness of the rocky land over millions of years to coalesce into a silencing, breathless serenity.

Greg Solik

Opinion | 23 September 2013

Snapshot of poverty in Cape Town

Mrs Nowelile Nonkelela stays in a one-room flat with her seven children and three grandsons. The family stays in Old Flats, Langa. Their room is situated in block C on the second floor where there are 20 such rooms.

Pharie Sefali

News | 18 September 2013

“I don’t see myself living anywhere but Manenberg”

Roegchanda Pascoe and her younger brother have watched through the window of their home as rival gangs fought with each other day in and day out. But Pascoe says she doesn’t see herself living anywhere but Manenberg.

Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 18 September 2013

Naidoo speaks out on Eastern Cape health crisis

The Neil Aggett Memorial lecture was delivered by Jay Naidoo at Kingswood College, Grahamstown on 13 September 2013.

Jay Naidoo

Opinion | 17 September 2013