Sam Turpin’s notes on grief
The legacy of photographer Gisèle Wulfsohn echoes through her son’s music as Sam Turpin confronts sorrow through art
GRIEF
Maria McCloy made Johannesburg feel possible
Friends, creatives and a city in mourning gathered to celebrate the woman who helped shape how Johannesburg saw itself after 1994.
Directors Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar push creative boundaries with Variations on a Theme
A poetic, genre-blurring film, Variations on a Theme excavates ancestral grief, memory and forgotten histories in a Northern Cape community still waiting for justice
How Me&B built joy into South African fashion
What begins as a search for the right dress for a difficult goodbye becomes a window into the heart and purpose behind Me&B, a South African label celebrating comfort, confidence and inclusivity
Grief allowed, grants us room to heal
There is a way we find refuge from mourning. We distract ourselves. We move cities. We change jobs. We scroll endlessly. We convince ourselves that strength means silence. But strength is not the absence of tears. Strength is the courage to feel
Exploring the fabric of family and identity in Lebo Mazibuko’s Fabrics of Love
Lebo Mazibuko’s second novel, Fabrics of Love, looks at themes of family trauma, black womanhood, absent fathers and heritage
The God Edition | Losing my religion to find my faith
One writer’s journey through activism and grief led him back to the altar — on his own terms
Khaya Dlanga: Writing his way to inner peace
Writer confronts family, grief and recovery in his most vulnerable, honest book yet
Tuiskoms: Finding healing in humour
Series captures the complexity of grief, family and rediscovery through love
Loneliness: A chain that melts the blood inside veins
An unknown woman’s death, alone and far away, inspires Iman Rappetti to sing her own confessional song, a cri de coeur for connection
The Grief of Strangers
Through Umhlobo Wenene’s ‘Imiphanga’, writer Lidudumalingani remembers his mother connecting with the pain of others
Mind the toxic workplace
While people are taking mental health more seriously, the commodification of workers can turn a job into a toxic space that depletes more than it uplifts
‘Touch: Sex, Sexuality and Sensuality’ — the erotic in action
Full to the point of rupture, Touch still leaves the reader yearning for more
‘The children cannot cope any more’: Suicide in Calvinia highlights lack of support for young
How Covid-19 has intensified the physical and emotional burdens placed on children’s shoulders.
The robot that allows Covid-19 patients human contact
A mental health pandemic: It’s far from ideal, but a dying mother was able to blow kisses to her child thanks to Khanya the robot
Grief is different for everyone
Some people need to seek professional help so that they can learn to accept the death of a loved one
Justice for Timol leaves us with bittersweet grief
“Long live Ahmed Timol, long live!”.
Slice of life: Making tea with love
Palesa Sauhatsi lost her grandfather in May 2015 and misses making him tea
Slowly, Norway reclaims the land where it lost its innocence
For the first time since Breivik murdered 69 people on Utøya, the political youth group he attacked has returned to the Norwegian island to camp.
Dying to talk about death
We would all choose a quick death if we could, but for some of us that won’t happen. We should talk more about it.
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Mother’s vow to ‘save one more teen’
Suicides among teenagers are on the rise, but parents can be taught to spot the warning signs.
A grief observed
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews <em>A Single Man</em>, an adaption of Christopher Isherwood’s book.
