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Gift: Vus’umuzi Phakathi, winner of this year’s Toastmasters’ Southern African Champion of Public Speaking award. Picture: Supplied
AUTHENTICITY

The architecture of speech: How to be heard

Southern Africa’s top speaker, Vus’umuzi Phakathi, unpacks the architecture of a powerful speech, mental illness, transformation and becoming visible in white spaces in an…

  • Dshamilja Roshani
8 min read
Black exceptionalism reinforces negative racial stereotypes and obscures the systemic and structural barriers that black people face daily
BLACK EXCELLENCE

Against ‘Black excellence’

Black exceptionalism reinforces negative racial stereotypes and obscures the systemic and structural barriers that black people face daily

  • Akanimo Andrew Akpan
9 min read
Standing her ground: Mamodupi Mohlala says people need to be educated on gender issues, not only in a domestic context, but also in the boardroom. (Delwyn Verasamy)
BLACK EXCELLENCE

Q&A Sessions: ‘I think I was born way before my time’ — Mamodupi Mohlala

The chief executive of the Estate Agency Affairs Board and the deputy chair of the SABC board, shares her take on retrenchments at the public broadcaster and reveals why she…

  • Nicolene de Wee
7 min read
(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)
BLACK EXCELLENCE

Daily moments of loneliness

We queer black men have learnt to hide ourselves and present a front of gay abandon

  • Zanta Nkumane
4 min read
‘The notable difference between black excellence and white excellence is that white excellence is achieved without meeting resistance in the form of institutional racism
BARACK OBAMA

Whose black excellence is it?

‘Respectable’ blackness be damned – just surviving in a world that beats us down is a feat

  • Kiri Rupiah
4 min read