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In this edition, Lise interviews Sumaiyah Muhammad, a 16-year-old law student, spoken word artist, and award-winning young author. Sumaiyah shares her journey of resilience, creativity, and [...]

I watch darkness approach as the clock ticks. Tick tock, tick tock, tick… A chill breeze passes through, causing my body to shudder. My eyes were fixed at the door. For a moment, the ticking [...]

They would like to think that I do not know myself. That the madness has completely taken over my senses, my ego and my being. I sit in a corner now, beside my favourite sofa in the living room, [...]

Langa was the heart of the struggle, a neighbourhood in the Western Cape where the scent of freedom mingled with the smell of oppression. It was 1989, a year before Nelson Mandela would be [...]

Over the noise of the grinding machine, I hear my sister scream to her little girl to get her some water. Their raucous conversation is what wakes me from my sleep. I am not surprised to find, [...]

To the homes we’ve left behind, little did we realise how long our shadows would stretch. we heard the homes’ whispers, and wondered how telepathic we were to those still residing in them. and [...]

As the shadows cast their darkest spells, A soul cries out, trapped within its shell. Once hailed a prodigy, now plagued by strife, A tender heart beats amidst the knife. Betrayed by those who [...]

My problems pregnant with each other like a Russian doll Solve them all, I could not, Dead end, I thought- For, further I could not go- Met the mother of them all Dear ole Mrs Alcohol That almost [...]

Mine is a minuscule painting, One so perfectly vanished on canvas With impeccable natural lighting. Something I often forget When painting a second, a day, a year. I collect so much moisture and [...]

In love, there lies a tender break, A fragile thread we dare not shake. It trembles soft within the heart, A whispered doubt, a flickered spark. A tenderness in tender grace, That shows our most [...]