We perpetuate rape culture on a daily. Our voluntary ignorance and dissociation from rape culture helps no one but fuels back to that very culture. I hate coupling rape with culture because in my mind, the word “culture”, gives it a dignity it does not deserve. A look at the constant fear women live in …
Thoughts On #BlackLivesMatter
She Said By Ethnite So many voices speak out, They call out for introspection, self-love and the ever so elusive self-acceptance. They have their whys and hows on my this and that, And here we are; Just me and you. When it comes to facing you I struggle to see me in you. You’re just …
Growing up in the new South Africa, a South Africa which is obsessed with the idea of a Rainbow Nation, and in practicality that idea a façade, one is forced to rethink the importance of a Human Rights Day. At the dawn of our coming of age democracy, eleven of the dominant cultures were recognized …
The book feels like two walls closing in, a feeling that is needed because that’s what reality does. The tragicness in most of the poems trigger a challenge to the reader to think about Rape, sexual and the offenders that live amongst us. Challenging you to assume the position of those in war and an …
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With my addictive nature coupled with the Tendai effortless skills, I throughly enjoyed it. My only problem with it, obviously being the way most characters hold the U.K. up as a kind of social ideal, I believes that Africa can still rise to greater heights, the hoisting of the U.K. nearly threw me off. Then …
This book is one of the most complex I’ve read. Bessie Head as a realist writer, her characters and their relationships aren’t shallow. Which makes it easier to follow the/ir development. There’s an an autobiographic feel about the story; Just like Head, the protagonist, Makhaya, was a journalist in apartheid South Africa who emigrates and …
What a book, what a writer. Easily into my top 10 favourite books. Extremism of any form is bad, the book successful brings this across. Besides drawing a lot of parallels with Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, some of the characters take the same form as those in Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga. Eugene …
Having shared spaces with Ace at University of the Free State and in student media, the book is somewhat of an ‘awe-striking’ experience. I also can attest to the frustrations with the institutional and structural issues that the university and the department of communication impose on unsuspecting young students. Ace’s story is a classical South …
It was at her Miss World crowning in December 2014 that Rolene Strauss set the ball rolling for a new tide of a different type of beauty queen from the traditional and now stereotyped During her run-up and time at the pageant, the Kovsie Medical student vowed to change and give hope to the most …
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