The slow violence of sugar
South Africa’s obesity and diabetes epidemics today can be traced to an accumulation of violence over time, starting on the early sugar plantations of colonial Natal.
Stories by: Chantelle Gray
Book Review | A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Kathryn Yusoff’s A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None locates the origins of climate change in slavery while exploring the grammars of capture, extraction and displacement.
Promises and lies: Running, and running for office
When it comes to sex and gender, the measures to do things right are there but they still come from within established patriarchal structures, which needs to change. Just ask Caster Semenya.
Book Review | Intruders
Mohale Mashigo’s stories are parables for South Africa’s present and future as the author shows us worlds filled with the zombified, the mutilated and the disenfranchised.