Interview with Jen Thorpe, author of The Fall

Hector, #FeesMustFall protest leader, believes it’s time for the students to think a little bigger than toyi-toying. This creates problems for Noné, South Africa’s President, who wants no trouble from pesky students in the week she’s launching an extraordinary zoo....

10 Brilliant Books to Celebrate Women’s Day

  Womanhood is an umbrella that covers an incredible wealth of virtues and experiences. The world over, the gifts and achievements of women deserve celebration. One of the ways that we can do this, beyond the efforts that we’ll be making all August to treasure...

Brutal School Ties by Sam Cowen extract

In September 2018, Collan Rex, the former water polo coach at Parktown Boys High School, found guilty of 144 charges of sexual assault and 14 of assault, was sentenced to 23 years in prison. It was one year longer than he’d been alive. The story made front page...

Kids books you need to read to better understand the #BLM movement

  In our ongoing journey toward racial equality, nothing is quite as important as education. As numerous wise people have remarked, children aren’t born racist.  It’s essential then, that children of every kind should not only see themselves represented in the...