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The proposed Transformation Fund aims to work with and for black women

It advocates for SMMEs owned by women, addresses problems women have with financing and targets sectors such as agriculture, where women labourers are concentrated

Going for gold: Salimah Valiani’s anthology of poetry iGoli eGoli is a socio-political examination of the city. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Johannesburg: A city laid bare in lines of poetry

Salimah Valiani’s beautiful, insightful anthology explores Johannesburg and its inhabitants

The eternal dance: Nduduzo Makhathini recently released his third album, which is titled uNomkhubulwane. Photo: Arthur Dlamini

uNomkhubulwane and songs of the water spirits

Nduduzo Makhathini unpacks the philosophy and traditions behind his new album

Crowning glory:  Zizipho Poswa with two of her massive ceramic vessels in progress. Photo: Hayden Phipps and Southern Guild

Heads up: Artist is firing up a ceramic storm

Zizipho Poswa’s new series of ceramic works celebrates black women via an expressive abstract language

Art meets philanthropy as Zanele Muholi embarks on a new chapter

The photographer has created a nurturing space for young creatives to tell their own stories by setting up the Muholi Art Institute in Cape Town

Government’s liquified petroleum gas strategy fails smaller players

The government should create an enabling environment for black women business owners to become less reliant on de facto monopolies in the industry

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Editorial: We have all shielded powerful abusers

How many R Kellys are we harbouring? It’s a difficult question for all.

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Editorial: Black women’s burden

Viewing black women as strong and resilient does them a disservice

‘Tongues of their mothers’: The story of Princess
Magogo, playing ugubhu. (Supplied)
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‘Ngibambeni, ngibambeni bomama!’ Refiguring Princess Magogo

The official historiography of Princess Magogo misses the nuances and influences of the many women in her life

Black feminine creative power: Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, Alice Walker, Louise Meriwether, Toni Morrison, Nana Maynard, Ntozake Shange and other members of The Sisterhood in 1977.  (Photograph courtesy of Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Howard University)

The Sisterhood: Reviving the evidence of things not seen

The Sisterhood reminds us that Black women are always our own antidote, our own cure. It was a refuge and refusal conceived by women who cared even when they didn’t have to

Defiant dreams: Pictures are used without captions in Saidiya Hartman’s book.
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Inside the circle: A review of Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

Saidiya Hartmanilluminates the perspectives of young Black women through a vividly cinematic narrative where we are positioned to view the world through their eyes.

A recent study of more than 200 rural respondents in the Eastern Cape, where drought has severely affected quality of life and food security, found that although farmers are actively trying to build resilience against climate change, more coordination was needed between state entities and local government to support them. (Photo: Gallo Images/Netwerk 24/Tebogo Letsie

Court victory for 400 000 elderly black women

An apartheid law that dispossessed black women of the assets accrued during their marriages has finally been scrapped after a Pinetown pensioner, facing impoverishment, went to…

Spatial planning in South Africa needs to take women’s safety into account. (Photo: Reuters/Sergio Moraes)

Women on the streets of smart cities

Apps like My Safetipin and Safe Pace are making the public sphere safer

Pioneer: Deshun Deysel plans to once again take on Everest. (Oupa Nkosi)

Ain’t no mountain high enough

An all-women African team, which includes a climber who was part of the disastrous 1996 climb, plans to summit Mount Everest in 2020

PINK: Women creating work by being aware of their needs!

Women in the Environment

Winner: PINK

Dorcus Moleli said she had to work twice as hard as her male counterparts to succeed. (Graphic: John McCann)

Dorcus Moleli

Head of quality, Danone South Africa

Bongeka Zuma wants to redress injustice in the health system. (Graphic: John McCann)

Bongeka Zuma

Student, Stanford University

Women have the strongest contact with children, says Busiswe Mahlangu. (Graphic: John McCann)

Busiswe Mahlangu

Principal, Hlolisa Primary School

Xoliswa Tini is forging her own path in real estate. (Graphic: John McCann)

Xolisa Tini

Real estate entrepreneur

Sindiwe Magona writes to leave footprints. (Graphic: John McCann)

Sindiwe Magona

Writer