Social issues

I had moved to a new guesthouse which looked and felt like a death trap. I had to travel even further to work and the…

I had moved to a new guesthouse which looked and felt like a death trap. I had to travel even further to work and the…

“All that has to happen is for the Taliban to lob a couple of hand grenades over the walls of one of the guesthouses,” the…

A small group of Bushmen sell their wares at the junction of the main road to Rietfontein, close to the Namibian border and Tweerivieren in…

“My father and them trekked with a donkey cart”, Floors explained. “It was a long distance to cover in that way and some families had…

Words have consequences. That is why the Germans speak of 'Schreibtischtaeter': people who were innocent of killing any Jews, gays or Gypsies in person, but who contributed to the holocaust through their writing.

Not too long ago Bishop Tutu (and many others like him) were taking on the moral corruption of apartheid. Particularly Bishop Tutu became a voice…

I was offered a job in Afghanistan. Exactly what kind of work is not at issue. It was everyday stuff, though the context was unusual.…

Kabul airport was a run-down, high-security version of “Bloemfontein international”. It was dotted with military freight planes and helicopters, hidden behind concrete walls and sandbags.…

“Don’t trust anybody,” an old consultant told me one morning in the corridor of the government office, sotto voce and all that. “I mean —…

The angry whispering of my ancestors, black, tan and white, refer. They speak about the words of some Deployed Writers in this middle-class space about…

“He’s the man!” Barham, my young Afghan colleague, said one morning as we inched through the godforsaken rush-hour traffic of Kabul, rocking through the frozen…

“Femen: are these naked breasts Islamophobic?”, an article published in the Weekly Mail & Guardian, focuses on the perception of some former members and other commentators that the …

A wave of popular interest and sympathetic media coverage helped the “radical” Ukrainian feminist movement Femen, known for their topless “attacks” on symbols of the…