By Ainsley Ash MAIN IMAGE: Due to coronavirus restrictions, Muslims are celebrating Ramadan a little differently this year. SOURCE: Ali Arapoğlu on Pexels Across the […]
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Africa’s malaria deaths could double due to coronavirus fallout
By Skylar Thoma MAIN IMAGE: The WHO warns that as many as 769,000 people could die from malaria this year if current efforts to combat […]
Ramaphosa mask flub goes viral
By Renny Simone MAIN PHOTO: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa struggles to put on a cloth … Read Full Article about Ramaphosa mask flub goes viral
Ramaphosa announces 5-stage plan to ease lockdown
By: Laura Peterjohn MAIN IMAGE: Ramaphosa addresses South Africa in a national broadcast on … Read Full Article about Ramaphosa announces 5-stage plan to ease lockdown
DRC attack leaves 12 rangers dead in park famed for gorillas
By: Ayinde Summey MAIN IMAGE: 12 rangers from the Virunga National Park in the DRC, famed for its … Read Full Article about DRC attack leaves 12 rangers dead in park famed for gorillas
Coronavirus entered US weeks earlier than previously thought
By: Laura Peterjohn MAIN IMAGE: Post-mortem testing has shown that people thought to have died of … Read Full Article about Coronavirus entered US weeks earlier than previously thought
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The blood of life: Culture of Zulu women showcased at Durban museum
By Lizzie Stricklin MAIN IMAGE: Zulu storyboards in the Phansi Museum depict … Read Full Article about The blood of life: Culture of Zulu women showcased at Durban museum
Antique collector dreams of finding new gems
By Skylar Thoma IMAGE: The inside of World Travellers Importers & Retail … Read Full Article about Antique collector dreams of finding new gems
Albert Thabede’s Life of Faith
By Ainsley Ash Many South Africans tell stories that have a marker: before and after democracy. Albert Thabede remembers the earlier time well. “Things were very, very bad,” he says, when he could not leave his house without his dompas. But Thabede prefers a different before-and-after story: before and after a Monday morning in 1986. […]
If walls could talk: the understory of Cape Town’s public art
By Claudia Stagoff-Belfort MAIN IMAGE: A mural in Salt River painted by South African graffiti artist Fok for the 2017 International Public Arts festival. SOURCE: Esa Alexander, Sunday Times On the corner of Loop and Strand Streets in central Cape Town, a lighthouse stands ten stories high, bright and bold over the rush hour traffic […]
Fifty Shades of Pale
By Maggie Connolly MAIN IMAGE: Several shelves of makeup on display in a shop in Cape Town’s China Town mall. Products here are priced much lower than in other outlets. Source: Maggie Connolly The woke wave has reached the global beauty industry. Twenty years ago, darker-skinned South Africans, would have been hard-pressed to find products […]
Greenwashing in the plastics debate: The hidden cost of ‘better’ choices
By Kimberly Wipfler MAIN IMAGE: Trash waiting to be sorted at a recycling centre in Cape Town. Source: Kimberly Wipfler If you’ve opted for a “green” alternative to a plastic product in an effort to help the environment – such as a paper straw or biodegradable coffee cup – you may have been duped. Environmentalists […]
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Yussuf Adam on the assassination of Ruth First
By Jacqueline Flynn MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE— “It took one-second and boom. I don’t know how I did it, but I broke through the door,” says Mozambican academic Yussuf Adam as he describes the day almost three decades ago when his friend and colleague Ruth First was … Read Full Article about Yussuf Adam on the assassination of Ruth First
