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Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play an engaged couple on shaky ground in ‘The Drama’.

‘The Drama’: A dark comedy about thought, guilt, and perception

A pre-wedding confession spirals into paranoia and hilarity, as The Drama probes how our hidden thoughts reshape love, trust, and identity.

Authentic: Bad Influencer creator Kudi Maradzika. Photo: Andre Berry

Kudi Maradzika’s Bad Influencer captures Joburg’s counterfeit glamour

With an all-star cast, the seven-part Netflix series unpacks fame, fraud and female empowerment in the modern African cityscape

From the West’s perspective the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha by the Taliban in Afghanistan could only be done by beings ‘less than human’. Photo: Aref Karimi/AFP

The logic of values: On moral incommensurability and its consequences

When encountering those who reject our fundamental values, we struggle to perceive them as fully human

The country’s foreign policy is centred on human rights, democracy, international law, peace and an Africa-first perspective. Photo: File

Freedom Day in a fractured nation: Who are we becoming?

Freedom is not about slogans or votes, it is something we must make together by our actions, in a country inured to violence and a world where self-interest rules.

Heart of stone: Dumisani Mbebe plays Don Bhengu in season two of the TV series Savage Beauty. Photo: Courtesy of Netflix

Savage Beauty back with a vengeance

The second season of the series offers an expanded cast and more corporate dark deeds

Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu speaks during a press conference in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Mauricio Dueñas / AFP)

Charter For Compassion is a good guide for continuing Tutu’s legacy

The best way to honour Tutu’s legacy is to champion his values of unity, justice and compassion, as espoused in the charter to which he contributed

Best friends Otis (Asa Butterfield) and Eric (Ncuti Gutwa) lost in the woods is a fitting visual metaphor for the confusion of teenage sexual discovery in Sex Education.
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Please don’t celebrate me: Nothing hurts more

The Netflix series Sex Education shows that whether you’re celebrating or vilifying “the Other”, it’s all part of the same subjugation