By Asanda Gura (@AsandaGura) If you’ve ever crushed on anyone, you will know what sweet misery it can be. From …
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#BestOfTheInternets: The baes Lindiwe Mazibuko and Julius Malema have a heart to heart
By Vanguard Reporter As part of the #987Women Women’s Day weekend takeover on PowerFM, Lindiwe Mazibuko receive…
Miss Lauryn Hill is ‘Feeling Good’ and you can’t take that away from her
By Thato Magano (@ThatoMagano) While trollling Sunday morning IG to avoid #FOMO, Thato Magano discovered a ‘sho…
#BestoftheInternets: Open Stellenbosch protests language policy: “We Can’t Breathe”
By Vanguard Reporter On Monday 27 July, members of Open Stellenbosch, “a collective of students and staff working to …
#BestoftheInternets: ‘Inqindi’ and the Black Female Body
By Vanguard Reporter Physical theatre piece, Inqindi, is an expression of one black woman’s struggle to form her iden…
Letter to Makhosazana Xaba on Running and Other Stories
By Panashe Chigumadzi (@panashechig) Our editor Panashe shares an email sent to author Makhosazana Xaba literally mi…
Feminizing Fanon: A review of ‘Conflicts & Feminisms’
By Mlamuli Hlatswayo (@MlamuliSA) In celebration of what would have been Fanon’s 90th birthday, Mlamuli provide…
#BestoftheInternets: Questioning Mandela’s Rainbow Nation
By Vanguard Reporter As the world marks Nelson Mandela Day on July 18, our editor Panashe Chigumadzi reflects on how …
Assata Shakur, Malcolm X and Taiye Selasi on “Kaffir Hare”
By Panashe Chigumadzi At the last Feminist Stokvel Hair Soiree on “The Problem with Kaffir Hare: Texture Discri…
#BestoftheInternets: Amandla Stenberg: Don’t Cash Crop On My Cornrows
By Vanguard Reporter In this video, the Hunger Game’s 16-year-old Amandla Stenberg delivers a crash course on b…
#BestoftheInternets: Shopping Can Be Torture For Plus Size Women
By Vanguard Reporter Lala and Nkanyezi, the wonderful women from Plus Size Is Me are in front of the camera again to…
Building Body Confidence: Lala Tshabalala on self-esteem
By Lala Tshabalala As the creator of the blog for fuller-figured women, ‘Plus Size Is Me Lala’ gets a lot…
#BestofTheInternets: Some children are more equal than others – Education in South Africa
By Vanguard Reporter Two decades after Apartheid was abolished, “Some Children are More Equal than Others”…
#BestoftheInternets: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Forget about being liked
By Vanguard Reporter A few weeks ago, the acclaimed writer was named the groundbreaker honouree at the 2015 Girls Wri…
#BestofTheInternets: Anne Kansiime is East Africa’s Queen of Comedy
By Vanguard Reporter Anne Kansiime is a talented award winning comedian, actress and writer from Uganda who has achie…