There is a time
By Jen Thorpe There are times when you need to stop. To sit down. To rest. To recoup. Sometimes they are simply a moment of defeat. We feel we cannot go on. At these times we stop because we feel...
View ArticleOn Freedom
Jen Thorpe By Jen Thorpe This month we celebrate Freedom day on 27 April. The day marks the day the first democratic elections were held in South Africa. I’m currently reading ‘Birth’ by Peter Harris,...
View ArticleEditorial: What hopes for the youth in SA?
Jen Thorpe June 2012 It’s not easy to be young in SA. I started the month of June by reading this article about the number of girls falling pregnant in Grade 3. As in, at nine years old. When they are...
View ArticleEditorial: Standard bank can stick its dishwasher where the sun don’t shine
Jen Thorpe By Jen Thorpe Ek kan nie. Get a dishwasher for mom, whilst dad sits on his post-feminist patriarchal derriere and watches his new home theatre system? Nee. Ndixolele. Jammer, maar nee. I...
View ArticleWhat does it mean to be feminist in Women’s Month?
Jen Thorpe By Jen Thorpe Many people spend a lot of their time making straw-women arguments about what it means to be feminist. Feminists, they assume, are all unshaven, definitely don’t wear make-up...
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