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‘Vat and sit’: Men are the ones who benefit from domestic partnerships and have little motivation to enter into marriage. However, the constitutional court (below) recently ruled that opposite-sex life partners may inherit from their deceased partner’s estate. (IVASHstudio/Shutterstock & Madelene Cronjé)
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

Apex court judgment enables opposite-sex life partners to inherit intestate

Constitutional court ruling enables people in opposite-sex life partnerships to inherit from their deceased partner, even if they haven’t left a valid will

  • Mandi Mudarikwa, Charlene May and Qiqa Nkomo
7 min read
Taking advantage of local communities’ despair and desperation, the politicians agitate by blaming foreigners for stealing jobs (Getty)
BLACKLIVESMATTER

We were separated by colonial borders and lost our ubuntu

Afrophobia is an imported anti-African sentiment that internalises colonialism because current state borders never existed in African societies

  • Zoleka Mazibuko
8 min read