Barbie Kyagulanyi’s ordeal reveals how love can become a powerful, non-violent force driving resistance, courage and conviction in Uganda’s struggle for meaningful democracy and…
Political cartoonist Carlos Amato reflects on satire, sensitivity and why South Africa remains one of the last frontiers of free cartooning
A powerful reflection on women who wait – out of devotion, duty and often unrewarded hope
Bringing together the traditional and the modern, Thandiswa Mazwai is taking her new album Sankofa to the world
An edited excerpt from Jonny Steinberg’s ‘Winnie & Nelson : Portrait of a Marriage’ where their daughter Zindzi visits the jail
The literary event aims to ‘inspire, delight, inform and challenge’ those who attend
‘Soweto Tea Party’ is a children’s book that tells the story of Dr Nokuthula Mazibuko Msimang’s childhood, growing up with a father under house arrest
The book may fall short of expectations because those who have canonised Winnie as the patron saint of black women’s emancipation may take offence.
But what of the women who were employed to guard the detained activists during this time of struggle?
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s death illustrates how society defines and judges women — by their biological function
Patriarchal systems have asserted for centuries that women can only own land through their men
The former Safety and Security Minister has denied that he had reopened a criminal investigation into the late Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
It was a final, fitting, recognition of the Mother of a Nation, who was also one of its sharpest spears.
Once Malema ended his speech, the previously packed stadium thinned somewhat, leaving a majority of ANC and only few EFF party members behind.
Madikizela-Mandela straddled generations because of her radical politics and her empathy for the oppressed.
"The world saw that a young generation, unafraid of the power of the establishment, was ready to challenge its lies…"
A crowd of hundreds gathered to pay their respects to the struggle icon as she made her final journey home
"Her holding my hands and talking about the work I do like that was so, so powerful".
Winnie Mandela threw in her lot with patriarchy but, when measured against its benchmarks of a ‘good woman’, she was found to be flawed.
A feast to paint Winnie Madikizela-Mandela as a black nationalist loony and a woman of loose morals kicked into gear even before her body was cold
