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Epitome of ethics: Author and cultural critic bell hooks insisted that care, love and spirituality were the core of black feminist practice and freedom. Photo: Karjean Levine/Getty Images

A spirit guide to ethical black feminist thinking and praxis

bell hooks’s refusal to ‘get in formation’ foregrounded healing as the foundation to a communal liberatory agenda

Moshibudi Motimele

Legging it: Paddy Harper can now see the funny side of witnessing a looter making off with a stolen leg on Monday last week

My sense of fear is over, for now

Whatever last week was — half-assed coup or failed sparkling insurrection — the dread of impending apocalypse has dissipated

Paddy Harper

Stern warning against Covid greets Mthembu’s death

The ANC has slammed conspiracy theorists and cautioned against showing complacency towards the deadly virus

Paddy Harper
Sarah Smit
Khaya Koko