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Bound to violence: toxic queer masculinities in South African films

Mar 25, 2019

cademic Gibson Ncube considers two South African films, Skoonheid and Inxeba, to study how the films present male protagonists who negotiate their sexuality in conservative societies.

Two South African films Skoonheid and Inxeba, despite their diametrically opposed socio-racial contexts, broach violent and toxic queer masculinities, according to Gibson Ncube, an academic in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Zimbabwe and a fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. Ncube argues that the films present male protagonists who negotiate their sexuality in very conservative societies, Afrikaner in the case of Skoonheid and Xhosa in Inxeba.

Cents and Sensibility: Political parties funding secrets remain safe

Mar 25, 2019

Going into the voting station blindfolded

The South African Medical Research Council at 50

Mar 25, 2019

Overcoming the burden of history to becoming the patron of health research under democracy

Let us get this right – Women Are Not Rocks!

Mar 25, 2019

If you strike a woman she will bleed and die

In an era where women being beaten and killed by their significant others is a norm, we need to do something that will lead to the real emancipation of women. March 8 is recognised globally as International Women’s Day, while this calls for a definite celebration of what women have achieved in the world today, it also calls for a deep introspection as the world, and as a country, on what we are doing wrong. Will we ever see progress

Graduates’ exhibition interrogates what it means to be human

Feb 26, 2019

Slavery, sangomas and sexuality

“Graduates”, an exhibition by final year students from the Department of Fine Arts at the University of the Free State, recently opened at the university’s Johannes Stegman Gallery. Precious Mamotingoe Lesupi reports on the pieces set to interrogate the broader concept of what it means to be human.

Final year students from the Department of Fine Arts showcased various artwork which depict their unique experiences of what it means to be human.

Dr Nadine Lake, lecturer in Gender Studies at the UFS, described pieces of the exhibition as ones which “remind us of the importance of rethinking familiar concepts”.