Yolanda Mzimela 28 August 2025 Mental health is often called the “silent epidemic,” and in South Africa, its financial and social toll is growing louder every year. Despite increased awareness, mental health conditions remain a significant burden—both emotionally and economically—for individuals, families, and the nation as a whole. Understanding the high cost of mental health…
Yolanda Mzimela 28 August 2025 Dance is more than movement – it’s a powerful language that conveys emotions, stories, and struggles often too complex for words alone. Around the world, artists are harnessing the expressive power of dance to explore and interpret mental health issues, breaking stigma and opening up conversations in creative, visceral ways….
Londiwe Buthelezi 25 August 2025 In a world obsessed with categories and titles, we often define ourselves by what others see on the surface – our job, age, ethnicity, or hometown. But imagine introducing yourself without any of these labels. Who would you be if all the social tags that society clings to were stripped…
Thembelihle Zwane 20 August 2025 The Body Keeps the Score explores how trauma, especially PTSD, affects the brain, mind, and body. PTSD occurs when someone experiences or witnesses a traumatic event and continues to have severe stress responses afterward. These include fear, anxiety, flashbacks, nightmares, and physical changes like increased heart rate and blood pressure due…
Thabisile Gumede 12 August 2025 A recent Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) study revealed that 33% of women journalists in South Africa face gendered and sexualised online abuse. The report, “Exposing the Silent Threat: Online Abuse Against Journalists in South Africa,” highlights the growing problem of cyberbullying targeting female journalists and evaluates media houses’…
Yolanda Mzimela Patient 12A is a deeply personal and evocative memoir by Lesedi Molefi, chronicling his time in a psychiatric clinic in 2016 and reflecting on how childhood experiences profoundly shaped the adult he became. With remarkable vulnerability and candour, Molefi invites readers into his chaotic past and the mental health struggles that led him…
9 Agasti 2025 Thabani Maphanga Ngokuvamile ezimweni zezifo, kungalindeleka ukuthi, kungakhathaleki izwe noma isiko umuntu ogulayo aphila kulo, isipiliyoni sokugula sizofana kakhulu. Kodwa-ke, kuthiwani uma umuntu ethi uzwa amazwi ezizukulwane zakhe ezashona noma ebika ukuthi wathunjwa okwesikhashana ngabantu abangaphandle komhlaba? Ingabe lowo muntu angabhekwa njengomuntu ongajwayelekile noma angakholelwa? Impendulo kungenzeka incike ekutheni lowo muntu uhlala…
15 Agasti 2025 Thabani Maphanga Uzimisele kanjani manje? Uyayizwa yini ingcindezi? Ingabe izinto seziba nzima kakhulu? Ingabe ukhathazekile ngokuthi ngeke uphothule konke okumele ukwenze namuhla? Ingabe ufisa ukuthi wonke umuntu athule futhi akushiye wedwa? Lezi zimpawu zonke ziyizibonakaliso ezivamile zencindezi. Ingcindezi encane, enempilo, ingasigcina siqaphile futhi kusisize sibhekane nezinselele. Kodwa ingcindezi enkhulu isenza sizizwe sisongelwa,…
12 Agasti 2025 Thembelihle Zwane Njengoba abantu abaningi bevame ukudla ngaphezu kokudla kwabo kwasemini emsebenzini, ukudla okunempilo emsebenzini kubalulekile—hhayi kuphela empilweni yomzimba kodwa nasekuphathekeni kahle emsebenzini. Ake sibheke izizathu zokuthi kungani abaqashi kufanele bakhuthaze—noma banikeze—ukudla okunempilo nezibiliboco emsebenzini. Kungani Ukudla Okunempilo Emsebenzini Kubalulekile Ukudla kusekela ukusebenza komzimba nengqondo yethu. Ngokudla okulinganiselwe singaphila impilo enokulingana. Njengoba…
10 Agasti 2025 Carolyn Sithole Ngesikhathi ngiqala uhambo lwami lokuphola emuva kokuphazamiseka ngokwengqondo, umuntu engihlekisana naye wathi: “Anginandaba nokuthi unesifo sini; ngizohlala eceleni kwakho inqobo nje uma uthola usizo.” Ngakho-ke ngenza njalo. Ngesikhathi ngiya kudokotela, ngangicabanga ukuthi ngizokhuluma naye ngenkinga yami yokuphefumula okwakungihlasela. Wangitshela ukuthi kukhona ukukhathazeka kwengqondo (anxiety), kodwa angizange ngimkholelwe. Ngoba mina ngiyazi…
