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Developing Self Trust During Challenging Times

How do you develop self-trust and listen to your inner voice when you are faced with challenges? How do you rise to your most authentic s...

Overcoming Anxiety to Find the Courage to Be Yourself

“Anxiety is your body’s natural response to stress. It’s a feeling of fear or apprehension about what’s to come.” - Healthline. Anxiety d...

Stop & Search: How to Hurt Communities and Alienate People

Looking over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s crime reduction measures, it’s hard to not feel cynical and worried. After all, there’s a lot...

Enough is Enough | Stop Gender-Based Violence

Protests against gender based violence in South Africa occurred outside Parliament in Cape Town, on September 4th and 5th. The protests c...

These Individuals Are Challenging Society's Perception of Beauty

The face of beauty is evolving and since the zeitgeist is allowing for the democratisation of information and perceptions of what is beau...

I am Phendu Kuta and This is My Story | Shot with LG V40 Thinq

Poised, graceful, knowledgeable and enlightened; these are the words that come to mind when describing Phendu Kuta. To the creative indus...

Finding Contentment Beyond Depression And Attempted Suicide

Belinda Phofu swiftly flared into Joburg’s creative spaces as an entrepreneur designing alternative jewellery and showcasing it at variou...

Inactivism - Feminism For the Consumer

We are living in a time when social causes are being used as a branding tool. It has become necessary to define who you are and to carve ...

Challenging the Stigma Surrounding Mental Illness in the Black Community

I was around four years old when I had my first encounter with mental illness, it started when I became acquainted with a boy who lived i...

"Selling Inclusivity" | Redefining the Normative in Fashion

Culture, race, sexuality and body image issues have been brought up in increasing amounts globally as the question of inclusivity in the ...

I am a Creative Entrepreneur And This is My Story | Mpumelelo Frypan Mfula

Very few people have the gift of making you walk away from a conversation with them feeling like you were talking to an old friend. This ...

African Culture Should Adopt Feminism

2016 was the year I realised how truly messed up this world can be for me – an African woman. More specifically, how deeply patriarchy is...

"Just Another Black Girl" | The Scourge of Sexual Violence against South African Women

Malawian author of “Soft Magic” and “Nector”, Upile Chisala said it best in her Twitter post; “I am Black, Woman, and African, in a world...

Township Farming | An Oasis from Food Insecurity

In South Africa there is an ever enlarging gap between the wealthy and the poor and rising food prices are a question of mortality to tho...

African Feminism & Women Empowerment in Botswana

What does it mean to be an African and a feminist? The answer is complex and varies from region to region and even from individual to ind...

Considering Christmas in Africa

Stepping into a shopping mall in South Africa at this time of year is an odd experience as Christmas carols about snow fill our ears, whi...

Student Protests: The Canary’s Song in the Neoliberal Coal Mine

The Fees Must Fall Movement has been spoken about in many different contexts among many different people. It seems there was nary a wood ...

Ticking the Box Marked ‘Other’

Kim Sanssoucie was born in Durban but has also lived in Cape Town and Johannesburg (the city where she currently resides). She is a write...

Get it Right | Inaccurate Coverage of African Fashion by International Publications

This decade has brought on an explosive increase in global attention on African fashion. While the more prominent fashion industries of t...

Natural Hair: Unacceptable in Corporate South Africa?

I went to work on one particular day with my natural hair out after months of having my wig on. I woke up that morning with a sense of pr...

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