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In his 2025 State of the Nation address the president promised improved healthcare access and infrastructure. (Photo by Guillem Sartorio/Getty Images)

Unmasking the painful truth of healthcare disparities

While we can’t change the socio-economic and entrenched racist structures of our societies overnight, we can take control of our individual healthcare

Students protest for free education in Cape Town. (Photo by Shaun Swingler/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Restless Prejudice: Is higher education a right or privilege?

Fair discrimination requires all South Africans to have an equal chance to meet the minimum standard to access institutions of higher education

‘Tell no lies’: University of Johannesburg rejects with contempt claims that it stifles academic freedom and transformation. Photo: ER Lombard

Academic freedom upheld at University of Johannesburg

Untrue allegations made by disgruntled humanities academic dismissed by labour court as his leave for appeal is refused

A negotiation: Nakhane, pictured in their garden in London in October, 2021. (Photos: Nakhane)

Nakhane: ‘Why do they care so much?’

The artist Nakhane is fatigued by the idea that lifestyle choices are ‘other people’s business’

Non-Americans often ask me what it has been like to live through President Donald Trump’s administration after the heady years of Obama. The answer, for me, is complicated.

Finding my faith in Trump’s America

From the heady days of Obama’s inauguration to the everyday fears of living while black, Jakki Kerubo had a front-row seat to one of the most turbulent periods in US history

(John McCann/M&G)

Nigeria is still a very dangerous place to be different

Nigeria is moving far too slowly in terms of accommodating different genders and sexualities, sacrificing happiness, liberties and lives.

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The hypocrisies of the EFF and the twists of our prejudice

It is important to acknowledge that journalism does not happen in a vacuum, prejudices seep into the tone and focus of our work

Explaining: ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe (centre) made the party’s first submission to the Zondo commission. (Masi Losi/Gallo Images/Sowetan)

Is education the answer to shifting attitudes towards homosexuality in Botswana?

Developing countries have not made the protection of LGBQTI rights a priority, but the more educated people are, the more tolerant they are

Equipped: Tawana Kupe, the University of Pretoria’s new vice-chancellor and principal, may be charming and funny, but he’s serious about his new job and knows what he wants to achieve. (Oupa Nkosi)

Universities: a mirror of their communities

Working with the community surrounding Univen was the most constructive way to changing mindsets

Former Sars commissioner Tom Moyane. (David Harrison/M&G)

Trans people seek bias-free healthcare

Transgender individuals in conservative small towns are too scared to seek medical treatment

The Springboks celebrate after their first win over the All Blacks at Carisbrook in New Zealand. Photo: Getty Images

‘Euuggh, that is so gay’

Let people be ashamed of their choice to not know, rather than their non-choice to be born homosexual or physically disabled or any shade of off-white.