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…
Stella Moll 12 August 2026 Recovery is often painted as a finish line. We imagine relief, freedom, and finally feeling like ourselves again. But for many people, healing isn’t accompanied by celebration. Instead, it arrives with something far more unexpected: guilt. There can be guilt for laughing when friends are still fighting their own battles….
Londiwe Buthelezi 10 August 2026 Kusukela ekuphakamiseni ibhokisi lamafayela kuya ekufinyeleleni ekhabetheni elingaphansi, iningi lethu liphakamisa izinto izikhathi eziningi ngosuku ngaphandle kokucabanga… kuze kube yilapho sizwa ubuhlungu obungqamuka emhlane. Ngamasu afanele, ukulimala nobuhlungu kungagwenywa. Ucwaningo olwenziwe KwaZulu-Natal luthole ukuthi amaphesenti angu-79.3% abantu bake babhekana nobuhlungu bomhlane esikhathini sabo sokuphila, ikakhulukazi kwabesifazane nalabo abaphakamisa izinto ezinzima….
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…
Thembelihle Zwane 22 July 2026 Ngesikhathi kufika uJulayi, unyaka usuvele uzwakala sengathi usuphelile ngaphambi kokuba uqale ngempela. Ukukhuphuka kwentengo kaphethiloli nokudla, umsindo wezimoto emgwaqweni, kanye nokungaqiniseki ngezomnotho – konke lokhu kunomthelela ngaphambi kokuba amaholidi kaDisemba abonakale. Kwabaningi baseNingizimu Afrika, uJulayi akuwona umgqigqo okumele ugujwe – kuyisikhathi lapho amandla asuke eseqala ukuphela. Kodwa ukuqala kabusha phakathi…
Londiwe Buthelezi 20 July 2026 Noma ubani ofuna usizo lwezempilo yengqondo eNingizimu Afrika kungenzeka ukuthi useke wahlangana nala magama amabili wazibuza ukuthi asho into efanayo yini. Awasho into efananyo. Nakuba bobabili odokotela bengqondo besebenzela ukusiza abantu ukuthi baphathe kahle impilo yabo yengqondo nemizwa, ukuqeqeshwa kwabo, amathuluzi abawasebenzisayo, kanye nohlobo lokunakekelwa abalunikezayo luhluke kakhulu. Ukuqonda lo…
