Professor Francis Thackeray (now retired) is a South African palaeoanthropologist and an honorary research associate of the Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in ...

The hand-coloured lithograph offers an unambiguous representation of violence. It depicts a white sugar estate slaveholder beating a black slave with a cat o’ nine tails. Essential for understanding ...

Local government elections taking place in Gauteng, residents vote for their chosen councilers - Photo' Delwyn Verasamy Governance re-imagined: Is politics without parties possible?

Do beauty pageants construct or dismantle psychological barriers that are disempowering for the contestants and audience?

The windows remain broken, and Ramaphosa seems to be signalling that he will keep looking the other way. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP) Tacit acceptance of unethical behaviour will be this ...

It could be argued that the conceptualisation of gender equality is subjective and perhaps even relative because of the varied perspectives from which it is understood. For this reason, the debate ...

Zuma has become symbol of South Africa’s deep-seated problems but, if we are to move on, we must lose our obsession with him ...

I am thinking of Nosicelo Mtebeni, a final-year law student from Fort Hare University in East London, who was gruesomely killed and dismembered by her boyfriend after an altercation. That this ...

Over the past 18 months, Cape independence has become a hot topic. We have heard the opinions of the various independence groups such as the Cape Independence Advocacy Group (CIAG) and CapeXit, who ...

International Youth Day, 12 August, is a day commemorating young people and bringing attention to the myriad issues they face, as well as highlighting the potential they have to transform society.

There’s an iconic scene in the movie Network when Peter Finch flips the script of his news report and screams into the camera, “I don’t have to tell you things are bad, everybody knows things are bad ...

It’s Women’s Month, the month where we are reminded of all the great and powerful women that lived before us, as well as the “mbokodos” of today. We see women dominating in their respective fields, ...