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Hanging out in the heart of Jo’burg
I spent two years at Wits University without ever venturing out into Braamfontein. Shameful, I know. Back then, in 2009, I referred to it as ‘town’. I didn’t differentiate between this place and the...
View ArticleGoogle honours Miriam Makeba
The life of Grammy Award-winning South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba was celebrated on Google’s search engine home page today. Born on March 4 1932, she would’ve turned 81. Makeba is...
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Recovering from my own financial crisis
In 2007, I landed my first ever job as an accounts clerk at a printing company. I hated it. It paid the minimum wage and cost me more than I earned just to travel to and from work, but I was proud of...
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Cirkafrika: The continent’s got talent
The Parisian audience is like a petulant child: very hard to please. So when French spectators and critics waxed eloquent over Cirkafrika, a show by an all-African circus troupe, I was intrigued, but...
View ArticleDifferent brands of faith
Celebrated photographer Andrew Tshabangu speaks to the Mail & Guardian about collaborating with Rene-Paul Savignan on a powerful project to document the diversity of spiritual practices on Réunion...
View ArticleFrom farm girl to city brat
I called my mom a few days ago. Our conversation went from how business was doing to my daughter, and closed with an invite to Nyanyadu, Dundee in northern KwaZulu-Natal. This small town is full of...
View ArticleBodies dissected and on display
The Body Worlds exhibition, currently on at the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre in Johannesburg, will change the way you see your anatomy. Real human bodies are explored in remarkable, often unnerving,...
View ArticleRape: Our nation’s shame
In a country where most rape cases go unreported, a silent protest at five university campuses around South Africa found a new voice against the scourge.
View ArticleJesse Jackson on SA’s new struggle for freedom
The Mail & Guardian spoke to US civil rights icon Jesse Jackson about the challenges facing South Africa’s young democracy.
View ArticleCrossing the Limpopo
Migrant farmworker Simpewe Zaducha speaks about her experience of crossing the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe illegally.
View ArticleThe fastest film ever made
A South African feature film shot in less than 11 days may be up for a Guinness World Record. The attempt officially kicked off at 9am on Wednesday, May 1, for which no preparation was allowed...
View ArticleDiepsloot: This is not xenophobia
Approximately 80 small-scale shops and informal retailers in the town of Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg, were looted after two Zimbabweans were killed on May 26, allegedly at the hands of a Somali...
View ArticleRhino poaching: After the killing
Three rhinos were poached during the Mail & Guardian’s recent visit to a rhino farm in the North West province. Is trading their horns the only way to save them? WARNING: contains graphic images....
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After tears: Mandela’s middle-class legacy
One of our neighbours had an after-tears function at their home on Sunday. It’s when people get together after the funeral of a loved one in vibrant (and often raucous) acknowledgement of life and the...
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Mandela the boxer inspires Soweto gym-goers
In a sweaty township gym where Nelson Mandela once trained as a young boxer, athletes are still pumping iron today, inspired by the peace icon’s example as he fights for his life in hospital. In the...
View ArticleA coffee vs livelihoods: Different kinds of loss
Every evening around 7pm, they would pack up their belongings, take home the cents they made that day and come back the next morning to do it all over again. Some would stay longer at their stalls,...
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‘Walk-in vagina’ kindles anger and approval in SA
It lets out a high-pitched scream as you enter, then a sneering laugh. It’s a walk-in vagina, a conceptual art installation that has South Africans wagging their fingers and scratching their heads....
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Bringing coffee culture to Khayelitsha
Department of Coffee sits in the middle of the chaos of Khayelitsha Mall and the train station. This up-and-coming coffee spot prides itself on being the only one that operates in Khayelitsha, one of...
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Boys of Soweto: a love letter to township style
Boys of Soweto is the vividly shot tale of a dapperly-dressed circle of gentlemen, a group of suave-conscious South Africans known as Boys of Soweto. The short film, shot in just a day’s work, runs...
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T2T: Three friends, 24 countries, 165 days and 30 901km
Despite Africa’s impressive economic growth, it’s clear from the way people talk about and do business on the continent that views of Africa have not changed dramatically in the past 20 years. Some...
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