By Suntosh Pillay
Why is it that men mostly join organisations and committees where they have some position of power and rarely offer themselves simply as volunteers who want to make a positive difference? This was just one of the questions posed ...
Yesterday I was walking in Cape Town’s city centre with a good friend of mine. As we crossed the road, a few construction workers in a truck began to verbally harass her, calling her a string of disgusting things.
So I yelled to them, “Fuck of...
With his latest Sunday Times cartoon, Zapiro has ventured where angels should fear to tread. I am saying "should" because it shows that journalist-cartoonists can be as desensitised as other South Africans about the social crises that beset us.
I...
"It's so unfair -- there's a Women's Day, so why can't there be a Men's Day?" wonder woebegone males countrywide each August. The answer is that every day (including August 9) is in actual fact a man's day.
Yes, we have a Constitution that enshrin...
This is us. No miracle nation. No rainbow nation. Just us: violent; intolerant of difference -- hitting where it hurts. Let’s not try to sweet-talk ourselves. This is who we are. Let’s look ourselves in the eye.
We are lurching from crisis to ...
