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Lebo Tshoma, an LGBTQ activist and entrepreneur, runs a small printing and design business in Kwa-Thema township east of Johannesburg. Photo by Alim Young '19

LGBTQ Entrepreneurs Find Success Amid Stigmas in South Africa

Catharine Kern July 10, 2018

Kwa-Thema, South Africa -- Lebo Tshoma, a 24-year-old woman living in Kwa-Thema, a township east of Johannesburg, runs a printing business out of her one-room metal shack that she shares with her 3-year-old...

Jacob Mallane, outside his home in Mautse, was called to be a sangoma or spiritual healer when he was a young child. He now serves the people in his community as a sangoma, police officer and volunteer. Photo by Ibrahim Ridley '18

Traditional healer embraces calling

Catharine Kern June 28, 2018

Rosendal, South Africa--As a young child, Jacob Mallane fell ill without explanation. Along with intense stomach pains, he also lost his ability to read and write. “I can write and read, but now I...

Audience listens to speakers at Building a Better Africa and a Better World colloquium in Johannesburg.

Panelists Debate Land Reform

Catharine Kern June 12, 2018

Johannesburg, South Africa – Mereille Fanon, an activist and scholar and former committee chair of the U.N. Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, told an audience on June 5 at Constitutional...

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