Story by Anathi Nyadu and Images by Unarine Ramaru The police man’s finger hovers precariously on the trigger. Nomfundo sings. She claps her hands and stamps her feet to the rhythm of the song. Her heart is a drum of fear. She is afraid, but she sings. The song helps in taking away her fears. …
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 …
With the dawn of democracy, access to a different group of society was afforded in Institutions and campuses that wasn’t built to accommodate that group. Twenty one years later into that democracy, the structures, culture and curriculum that held these spaces are still as static to their imperial inception as ever. In all its forms, …