Soon after Street Talk’s High School Dropouts episode aired on 18 April, Zano Mramba, 28, who had helped research the insert and also shared his story on screen, received a telephone call. The caller told Zano that after watching the episode on Daily Maverick, he...
Strike a woman, and you strike a rock,” said Street Talk’s director Richard Mills, quoting from the famous resistance song that symbolises the courage and strength expressed at the Women’s March of 1956. These words aptly describe the seven ordinary mothers who...
In the past few months, 35 people were murdered in in Cape Town’s Hanover Park. Most victims were youth, some caught in crossfire between rival gangs the Americans, the Laughing Boys and Mongrels. In October, Police Minister Fikile Mbalula announced that he had...
In the outskirts of Cape Town, residents of Langa township are faced with detrimental living environments. Faulty electrical wires hang from makeshift homes made of Coca Cola emblazoned tin sheets and flammable tarps. Multiple families share a single faulty toilet...
Buying lunch boxes and diapers, providing emotional and housing stability as well as providing financial support to a family is a monstrous task for anyone, let alone a single unemployed mother under the age of 19. According to a survey conducted in 2015 on South...
#FeesMustFall2016 Hand claps. Whistles. Methodic footsteps and lyrics revealing a deep historical pain erupt from the crowd, commanding the captivated gaze of onlookers. It is midday on Wednesday, October 5th on the University of Cape Town campus where hundreds of...
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