Last week the Constitutional Court ruled that the pregnancy policies of two schools in the Free State were exclusionary and unconstitutional but that the province’s head of department for basic education did not have the power to instruct its principals to ignore policy made by those school governing bodies – even if he or she [...]
Main photo by: Moeti Moumakoe “I don’t want to see anything about apartheid,” said a young black student sitting a few tables away from me. I was half an hour away from watching my first play at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, titled Madonna of Excelsior. It is an adaptation of a Zakes Mda [...]
If you walked up to a man in the street and grabbed him by the balls, chances are you’d be heading to the police station to face a sexual assault charge – if you survived getting punched out, that is. But do it on the rugby field and you’ll merely get a telling off by the [...]
There are differing schools of thought on the Xhosa rites of passage ritual that involves male circumcision. There are those who believe that the ritual should either be done like it was in the days of yore; where initiates spent months in isolation, or, completely gotten rid of it. Others advocate that the ritual continue [...]