by Faith Mangwanya | Aug 4, 2021 | Current Affairs, Empowerment
I grew up in a cosmopolitan suburb in the southern parts of Johannesburg. In the early 2000s, the community was an eclectic mix of white Afrikaners, a few Indians who owned the local grocer, blacks and coloureds who had worked their way out of the townships, and a...
by Kabasinga Samantha Kagabo | Jul 23, 2021 | Culture, Empowerment, Thoughts & Reflections
There is a cloud of pressure that hangs over black women in our society. The pressure to be strong, independent, confident, among other things. We are ‘queens’ if we do not break down when something saddening happens to us, or if we do not fight back and...
by Eunice Aber | Jul 19, 2021 | Education, Empowerment, Thoughts & Reflections
This story begins with the disco hall near my residence (residence because apartment is too generous and rental is too modest). It is 2AM in the morning and because it is a Public Holiday, the entire neighbourhood is treated to a generous supply of loud rocking music....
by Anesu Nyakubaya | May 10, 2021 | Empowerment, Feature, Thoughts & Reflections, Uncategorised
19 years ago I lost a parent. I was 7 so I did not really understand what was going on. I knew what death was and knew it meant I would never see my father again but I did not understand what it really meant. It took a while for it to sink into my immature mind that...
by Gloria Busingye | Apr 28, 2021 | Empowerment, Thoughts & Reflections
Do you pay attention to how you interact with people? Or the different mannerisms that you display when you are around different people? Most people do not give it much thought. However, recently an article surfaced where the current female Tanzanian president Samia...
by Ayandola Ayanleke | Apr 20, 2021 | Empowerment, Lifestyle, Thoughts & Reflections
A while back, Ayandola wrote an article on female bosses because of the unfair slander of female bosses. If there is one clear thing, the code of conduct used to assess female colleagues and bosses is very different from those applied to their male counterparts and...
