Category: Mental Health & Wellness

Thembelihle Zwane 10 September 2026 USipho Ndlovu waba neminyaka engu-47 ngoMarch bese walahlekelwa umsebenzi wakhe ngoJuni. Ngo-Agasti, uthi, wayeseyekile ukuphendula ucingo oluvela kumfowabo. “Bengiwumuntu okuthi uma abantu benenkinga bagijimele kimi. Manje ngangingakwazi ngisho ukubatshela ukuthi ngiyacwila,” kusho yena. “Lapho engivela khona, indoda ethi ‘angikho kahle’ ayithathwa njengendoda.” USipho akazange azame ukuzibulala. Wayenenhlanhla – umzala wakhe…

Stella Moll 9 September 2026 What Is Main Character Syndrome? Picture yourself walking down a busy street with your headphones on, music playing, convinced, just for a moment, that your life has a soundtrack. Everyone around you becomes part of the scenery, and you are at the centre of the story. Welcome to “main character…

Stella Moll 26 August 2026 There is a strange silence that can arrive after healing. For so long, your story may have been organised around what happened to you: what you survived, what it cost you, and how you learned to keep going. Then, slowly, the crisis quietens. The memories remain, but they no longer…

Thembelihle Zwane 20 August 2026 Yini ocabanga ngayo lapho uzwa igama elithi “ukuzibophezela”? Kwabaningi, leli gama lidala umuzwa ongemuhle, lapho uzizwa ucindezelwe ukuba wenze into. Mhlawumbe uzizwa ungathandi ukuyoqedela umsebenzi othile, lokho okuzibophezela okuye kwaguqulwa kwaba yinkinga. Nokho, njengengxenye ebalulekile yomphakathi, ukugcwalisa izibopho kwabanye kungaba nenzuzo, hhayi kuphela kubona, kodwa nakuwe. UJuliet Wakefield, isazi sesayensi…

Thembelihle Zwane 14 August 2026 Njengoba abantu abaningi baseNingizimu Afrika bephila impilo yokuhlala kakhulu, ochwepheshe bathole ukuthi ukuhlala isikhathi eside ngosuku kunomthelela obanzi empilweni. Abanye basebenzisa umfanekiso wokuthi “ukuhlala kufana nokubhema.” Uma umsebenzi wakho uhlanganisa ukusebenza kukhompyutha ehhovisi, ukuhlala emgwaqweni ushayela noma usemathekisini isikhathi eside, kanti izinto ozithandayo zihlanganisa ukubukela i-TV noma ukuhlala ezitolo zecoffee,…

Londiwe Buthelezi 12 August 2026 Nomvula Zulu stood in front of the mirror in her Durban flat, adjusting the collar of a blouse her mother had picked out for the family gathering. Thirty-four, unmarried, and childless –  three facts that, in her aunt’s eyes, added up to a kind of quiet failure. She was a…

Thabisile Gumede 11 August 2026 For years, Jonathan Blaauw did what most of us have been told to do: he wrote gratitude lists. Health. A roof over his head. Food on the table. All true, all worth appreciating – and yet, night after night, he found himself going through the motions without ever really feeling…

Thabisile Gumede 9 August 2026 Nomvula makes her mother’s tea before she wakes her son for school. By 6:30am she has checked her mother’s blood pressure medication, packed a lunchbox, answered two work emails from bed, and mentally rehearsed the difficult conversation she needs to have with her manager about taking Friday off – again…