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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...
CRAFTING THE CROWNSouth Africa’s next Zulu king will have to modernize the monarchyQuartz Africa • March 19, 2021
How working from home helped Starbucks expand in South Africa’s pandemic-hit economyQuartz Africa • December 8, 2020
SINDIKA DOKOLO (1972-2020)Africa’s art world has lost one of its most generous but controversial benefactorsQuartz Africa • October 30, 2020
"GREAT PIECE OF WORK"What Ruth Bader Ginsburg thought the US could learn from South Africa’s modern constitutionQuartz Africa • September 23, 2020
UNIFYING ANTHEMHow South Africa’s “Jerusalema” became a pan-African hit, then a global dance favoriteQuartz Africa • September 18, 2020
THE MANE ISSUEAn offensive haircare advert shows Black South Africans still have to fight apartheid’s race battlesQuartz Africa • September 9, 2020
CULTURED COUTURESouth African women are forging new fashion frontiers by embracing their heritageQuartz • July 9, 2020
Netflix’s “Blood and Water” features Black wealth, Cape Town mansions and invisible inequalityQuartz Africa • June 27, 2020
#ALCOHOLMUSTFALLSouth Africa’s long-standing alcohol abuse problem reemerged a day after lifting a lockdown banQuartz Africa • June 2, 2020
WILL HE, WON'T HE?An embattled prime minster wants to stay in power to avoid being charged for his wife’s murderQuartz Africa • May 16, 2020