Norma Young

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Norma Young is a print and broadcast journalist. She studied at the Durban University of Technology and has worked for media houses including O, The Oprah Magazine, South Africa, SABC News and eNCA. Though she has been living in Johannesburg for almost two decades, she still considers herself a Durbanite at heart. Follow her on Twitter @JournoNorma

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6/13/21

African entertainment comes into its own

Carlos Mureithi,

Nadia Neophytou,

Yomi Kazeem,

and Norma Young

PublishedJune 13, 2021

3/19/21

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African entertainment comes into its own

South Africa’s next Zulu king will have to modernize the monarchy

How working from home helped Starbucks expand in South Africa’s pandemic-hit economy

Africa’s art world has lost one of its most generous but controversial benefactors

What Ruth Bader Ginsburg thought the US could learn from South Africa’s modern constitution

How South Africa’s “Jerusalema” became a pan-African hit, then a global dance favorite

An offensive haircare advert shows Black South Africans still have to fight apartheid’s race battles

South African women are forging new fashion frontiers by embracing their heritage

Netflix’s “Blood and Water” features Black wealth, Cape Town mansions and invisible inequality

South Africa’s long-standing alcohol abuse problem reemerged a day after lifting a lockdown ban

An embattled prime minster wants to stay in power to avoid being charged for his wife’s murder

South Africans are worried the government will use coronavirus phone tracking to spy on them

South Africa’s poor face a health and safety quandary as the country goes into coronavirus lockdown

South Africans are divided over the return of 114 students from China’s coronavirus epicenter

A murder scandal, Lesotho’s prime minister, his wife and an African lesson on the rule of law

A misguided attempt by FW de Klerk to reframe apartheid’s impact damages his legacy