Rape can happen in an instant but is it generations in the making?
Crime stats released in 2015 reported a drop in rape cases, but experts say this is because fewer people are bothering to report rapes to the police.
[From our archives] The boys who lost their manhood
During this initiation season, we look back at what happened in 2013 when bungled initiations cost boys their penises.
Silent killer lurks in miners’ lungs
Silicosis might appear only 15 years after exposure to gold ore dust, long after they have gone home. Heidi Swart reports.
A doctor born of hope
This man from rural Eastern Cape had to travel all the way to Cuba to make his dream of becoming a doctor come true. Now, he is back home and treating patients at the same hospital his mother used to sell fruit in front of when he was a boy.
Is today’s ukuthwala a perversion of an earlier tradition?
The kidnapping of young girls ignores the 'niceties' of a cultural practice.
‘God make us strong, I beg you, keep Luphumlo alive’
Mia Malan describes the arduous trek an Eastern Cape woman had to undertake to get medical attention for her sick grandson.
‘I saw the world through the blurry lens of an oxygen tent’
With the severe effects of the habit on the unborn child now widely known, why do pregnant mothers refuse to give up?
Bianca learns to Beat It
An eighth-grade teenager shows how funky and strong her fight against a four-letter word is. Mia Malan reports.
Abused from the womb
Pregnant women who drink alcohol put their unborn children at greater risk than they think, writes Mia Malan.