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Floral focus: Sitters Sami Maseko (left) and Dumisa Mathabathe form part of photographer Cole Ndelu’s project, A Study of Femininity. (Cole Ndelu)
A STUDY OF FEMININITY A RADICALLY SOFT PORTRAITURE PROJECT SUBVERTING THE ABJECT

The abject are the subject

“We tend to interpret portraits as though we were reading something inherent in the person portrayed … We easily link the people’s facial features to the content of their…

  • Zaza Hlalethwa
5 min read
Demonstrators at a Time’s Up rally in London. The initiative was launched in response to the #MeToo movement and the Harvey Weinstein scandal. (Chris Ratcliffe/Getty Images)
GENDER INEQUALITY

Watch where you put your hands, oaf !

Men need to overhaul learnt views of their power over and rights to women

  • Melanie Judge 1
7 min read
A new chapter: Wade Smit’s fascination with isiZulu stories and his desire to see more of them made available to a wider audience led him to start a publishing house with his wife
ABLEISM

Silence is no answer to injustice

Eusebius writes that naming injustices instead of being silent about them is important for working towards having a just society

  • Eusebius McKaiser
5 min read