On 24 August 2019 University of Cape Town (UCT) first-year student Uyinene Mrwetyana went to the post office to pick up a parcel and ended up being brutally raped and murdered by a male post office worker. To commemorate the anniversary of this tragic event, the Uyinene Mrwetyana Foundation (UMF) [...]
A year after 19-year-old Uyinene Mrwetyana was kidnapped, raped and brutally murdered while collecting a parcel at a post office in Cape Town, her mother, Nomangwane, wants to find a way to stop male violence and hate. Read Uyinene, one year later: Patriarchy and the ‘boy code’ that makes monsters [...]
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Kopano Ratele was one of the panellists on the webinar Psychology of Racism in the Light of the Black Lives Matter Movement. The announcement of the webinar said, among other things: “In this webinar, leading psychologists who work on race and racism, patriarchy, sexuality, class, and violence will offer their [...]
Since level 3 of the lockdown kicked in, it seems it's back to normal for Capetonians with very little social distancing taking place. Some would argue that people are simply not adhering to the lockdown. Are we at the end of our tether with this lockdown? Prof Ashraf Kagee from [...]
The unbearably tragic stories are becoming more common and heart-wrenching. A Cape Town teenager losing her parents to Covid-19 in one day (a prominent American even lost his parents to the virus six minutes apart); and three Pretoria siblings hit by a double shock after their father died from Covid-19 [...]
Professor Ashraf Kagee - Psychology and Co-Director: Alan Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health talks about whether it can be determined that patients recovering from COVID-19 could also suffer some degree of PTSD in the months after.
South Africans have been in lockdown for more than 100 days. As the number of coronavirus cases, and the death toll continue to rise, many people had to face some serious psychological challenges, from job losses, children not being in school, to fears about the virus itself. For more on [...]
Read ‘Black children and white dolls’ by Kopano Ratele, excerpted from his book The World Looks Like This From Here: Thoughts on African Psychology – The Johannesburg Review of Books – Kopano Ratele, 3 July 2020
However, 'I do not think that people are woefully irresponsible, but we are dealing with a combination of factors,' said professor Ashraf Kagee. People are tired of the lockdown and weary of all the restrictions which have been placed upon them – and that’s why some of them are acting [...]
