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ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY

M&G Thought Leaders’ top books of 2021

The Mail & Guardian asked a few of the regular contributors to the ThoughtLeader platform to give us their views on the top three books they read this year

  • ThoughtLeader
7 min read
Rather than marching on the JSE to ask companies to contribute money to fighting gender-based violence, it would arguably be better to hold companies to account for how they fail to address these issues internally. (David Harrison/M&G)
ABUSE

Use the workplace to stop socially embedded violence

The judicial system alone and appealing to miscreants has not stopped attacks on women

  • Seán Mfundza Muller
9 min read
Some gay men refuse to date bisexual men; we are rendered “strangers” in the LGBTI+ community (Antonio Bronic/Reuters)
BODY LANGUAGE

No home for bisexual black men

When you love both sexes, rejection comes from both the straight and the LGBTI+ communities

  • Mpho Ndaba
5 min read
A soldier fires at demonstrators in Harare as protests erupted over alleged fraud in the country’s election. (Zinyange Auntony/AFP)
50 CENT

The truth? No one is ‘unrapeable’

Married women, sex workers, men – all can be raped. To say otherwise protects perpetrators

  • Kiri Rupiah
4 min read
‘We think that there is a fruitful conversation that needs to be held
BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS

Identity by race does matter

Celebrating the first ‘black’ or ‘African’ woman to get a doctorate in philosophy raises critical issues

  • Nompumelelo Zinhle Manzini
  • Zinhle Mncube
8 min read
On our Lists this week:’Pumla Dineo Gqola’
CAIPHUS SEMENYA

On our Lists this week:’Pumla Dineo Gqola’, ‘Paul Beatty’and Babalawo

Milisuthando Bongela and Kwanele Sosibo explore interesting reads and both classic and new music

  • Arts Desk
2 min read
Room for a view: Pumla Dineo Gqola’s latest book is a celebration of black scholarship that nonetheless reveals a very private person
FEMINISM

A beautiful feminist mind divorced from self-indulgence

“You can grow black scholarship anywhere but I can’t see how we can continue to do this work in white institutions”

  • Kwanele Sosibo
7 min read
PUMLA DINEO GQOLA

The Women’s League soils its legacy

<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>To say…

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read