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Moshitadi Lehlomela.
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When Home Hurts: Moshitadi Lehlomela on Healing Maternal Trauma

Author Moshitadi Lehlomela confronts childhood trauma in Healing the Mother Wound

In To Health With It!, Tebogo ‘ProVerb’ Thekisho combines relatable
stories with expert guidance on health and wellness

From hip-hop to holistic health

In To Health With It!, Tebogo ‘ProVerb’ Thekisho combines relatable stories with expert guidance on health and wellness

Author Michelle Kekana

Road to mental wellness: Michelle Kekana and Marion Scher’s books give voice to the silent struggles within

Michelle Kekana and Marion Scher challenge the narrative, highlighting mental health as a universal human experience

Emotional growth: Through social media, films, podcasts and online forums, we are exposed daily to alternative models of parenting from around the world.

In a therapy session with my African father

The difficulty many African parents have in apologising to their children, and their emotional distance, is linked to generational and technological shifts

Between the lines: What South African stories reveal about men’s mental health

What happens when men can’t ask for help? These South African books offer raw, revealing answers

Clea and Theresa with their father, Clyde Mallinson. The family spent many happy beach holidays at Crawford’s Cabins in Chintsa East in the 1980s. Photo: Brenda Mallinson

A holiday for the soul: Home is where the beach is

Revisiting a childhood holiday spot — Chintsa in the Eastern Cape — helped to kickstart recovery from burnout and depression

Peri from the Netflix series Ethos.

Screen Grab: Istanbul’s eye

The Netflix drama ‘Ethos’ lays bare the divided soul of contemporary Turkey

(Unless South Africa’s  Covid-19 vaccine uptake improves soon, the country will be saddled with well over seven million expiring doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine by July — with nobody to offload them onto. Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Collaboration is key for equitable access

Equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines, therapies and diagnostics is a moral duty

NAPLES, CAMPANIA, ITALY – 2020/10/20: Schoolchildren with cognitive disabilities are helped by their teachers in a classroom with social distancing during the closure of schools imposed by the COVID19 emergency. The Vanvitelli elementary school in Naples is one of the few schools that has not closed its gates so as to assist their most fragile pupils. (Photo by Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images)

How to recognise mental illness in children and adolescents

Children are often unable to verbalise their feelings of anxiety or depression, instead presenting with physical symptoms or odd behaviour. Diagnosis and treatment is crucial to…

Childhood trauma: An image from Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo’s Slaghuis II exhibition, which can be viewed online (Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo)

The Portfolio: Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo

Photographer Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo’s latest project, Slaghuis, is a recounting of the trauma he experienced growing up in his family’s tavern business

Ruff day at the office: Find out how, in court, comfort for the tiniest victims of sexual abuse can come from the unlikeliest of places. (Image via Wikus de Wet)
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Ruff justice: Meet the dogs helping put child rapists behind bars

Victim testimonies can be key to securing convictions. They can also be traumatic. Meet the furry friends coming to the rescue.

Rosina and James Komape

Pit toilet case: ‘Accidents do happen’

These were the state social worker’s words to a tearful mother after her five-year-old’s death

‘My trepidation revealed itself as silence

Slice of Life: When ink is more than skin deep

‘Clearly emotional, it soon became clear that she had come to see me more as a psychologist than an artist’

Maneo Mohale

Words can banish our ghosts

"I wanted to show it all to her, so she could fix me. I needed her to fix me".

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Where is the white feminist movement in SA?

Where is white feminism for young white girls who are not starting groups at their schools about the things that are troubling them?

#SliceOfLife: ​Therapy with Blondie

#SliceOfLife: ​Therapy with Blondie

There’s something special about making a guitar by hand. Each one is unique.

The unhappy rich: Antidepressant use soars in developed nations

Living in a wealthy, developed nation may not make you happier, with a study finding that antidepressant use has surged across the rich world.

Hypnosis is not just about making you cluck like a chicken

The truth is, the phenomenon is not the mystical and magical art many assume it is.

Medical clown Israeli David Barashi interacting with a patient during a visit to Dhulikhel hospital on the outskirts of Kathmandu.

Clown brings a smile to children in Nepal hospitals

He may not be much of a doctor but the children’s faces light up when Dush The Clown shuffles onto their ward.