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Style: For more than three decades, Trompies have deliberately maintained their signature township boy attire of takkies and sporties. Photo: Supplied

Kwaito isn’t dead, it’s evolving

Trompies’ story reveals how true legends endure by evolving without losing their cultural centre

  • Eyaaz
6 min read
Four toilets, built in 2013 by the organisation Candice Andisiwe Sehoma founded, are still flushing, although floods of raw sewage flow daily through the streets of Alexandra. (Sean Christie)

Building toilets, fighting TB: Candice Andisiwe Sehoma’s life of activism

From discontinued insulin pens to overpriced TB drugs, meet the young South African holding drug makers to account on behalf of patients

  • Eyaaz
10 min read
Haves and have-nots: The skyline of Sandton, home to the richest square mile in Africa, forms the backdrop to Alexandra township in Johannesburg. Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images

Is God good to everyone?

If He is, then when will people like me get to experience his abundant goodness and mercy?

  • Eyaaz
6 min read

Baby Saver defends havens amid government claims of illegality

The Gauteng department of social development contends that the havens are illegal, encourage abandonment, and impede the rights of fathers

  • Des Erasmus
6 min read