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Norma Young

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...

SINDIKA DOKOLO (1972-2020)
Africa’s art world has lost one of its most generous but controversial benefactors
Oct. 30, 2020Quartz
"GREAT PIECE OF WORK"
What Ruth Bader Ginsburg thought the US could learn from South Africa’s modern constitution
Sept. 23, 2020Quartz
UNIFYING ANTHEM
How South Africa’s “Jerusalema” became a pan-African hit, then a global dance favorite
Sept. 18, 2020Quartz
THE MANE ISSUE
An offensive haircare advert shows Black South Africans still have to fight apartheid’s race battles
Sept. 9, 2020Quartz
CULTURED COUTURE
South African women are forging new fashion frontiers by embracing their heritage
July 9, 2020Quartz
Netflix’s “Blood and Water” features Black wealth, Cape Town mansions and invisible inequality
June 27, 2020Quartz
#ALCOHOLMUSTFALL
South Africa’s long-standing alcohol abuse problem reemerged a day after lifting a lockdown ban
June 2, 2020Quartz
WILL HE, WON'T HE?
An embattled prime minster wants to stay in power to avoid being charged for his wife’s murder
May 16, 2020Quartz
WHO'S LISTENING?
South Africans are worried the government will use coronavirus phone tracking to spy on them
April 7, 2020Quartz
South Africa’s poor face a health and safety quandary as the country goes into coronavirus lockdown
March 24, 2020Quartz