By: Siphokazi Magwaza As of March 2026, the Natasha doll, a stress relief toy resembling a dark-skinned baby, has taken the internet by storm and prompted people to question whether discrimination can ever truly be eradicated from society. Initially, the trend started as a harmless joke in China on social media when a content creator, whose identity has not been publicly revealed, bought the squishy doll and began making videos where they treated it as their real daughter and

By: Mukelani Cele Life hardly ever pauses gently. It shatters your plans, upsets your expectations, and puts you in a place you never meant to be in. In one instance, you are following the same routine as everyone else, school, applications, and plans for the future, and in the next, you remain stagnant as life continues for those around you. Because we are conditioned to equate movement with success and pauses with failure, that stagnancy may be unsettling. However, that com