Dramatic decline in teen pregnancies in South Africa leaves experts puzzled
While experts have welcomed the decline, they warn that the numbers remain concerning and raise important public health and social questions.
While experts have welcomed the decline, they warn that the numbers remain concerning and raise important public health and social questions.
Zuko Komisa Image | Adobe Stock Anonymous is torn between his love for his fiancée and his fear for their financial future. Having paid lobola and moved in together, he is now haunted by his family’s warnings that he is settling for someone below his professional and financial level. His dilemma is whether her lack of financial structure is a genuine red flag or if he is being unfairly judgmental […]
Katlego Sekhu Image by freepik Anonymous is 45 years old and thought she understood herself well enough to navigate matters of the heart. A recent season has made her question that. Her father passed away when she was 25. He was 58. She did not grieve the way she perhaps needed to. She carried on, the way many people do, and filed the loss somewhere quiet inside herself. Years later, […]
Have you ever had that nagging sense that the end is near? It’s that heavy realisation that things simply aren’t the same, even though nobody has been brave enough to say it out loud.
Siz The World weighed in, with the team exploring both the appeal and the complications of this.
Anonymous lost his brother suddenly while he was living and working in the Eastern Cape.
The situation came to a head when the friend called Anonymous in distress late one evening.
Do adults secretly mourn their birthdays more than they celebrate them? Zuko Komisa Image | Adobe Stock Let’s be honest: as adults, the "Happy Birthday" song can feel less like a celebration and more like a deadline. While we might put on a brave face and blow out the candles, many of us are privately dealing with a bit of a "birthday hangover" before the party even starts. The "birthday […]
Soweto residents have demanded urgent intervention from Eskom over rising electricity costs and ongoing power cuts By Mapaballo Borotho Image: Adobe Stock Soweto residents, like many ordinary South Africans, are grappling with soaring electricity prices amid a cold and difficult winter. As a result, they handed over a memorandum of demands to Eskom on Monday, 04 May 2026, calling for urgent relief from rising electricity costs and ongoing power outages. Eskom […]