'Patriot of special quality' Nthato Motlana dies in Johannesburg

Anti-apartheid activist, businessman and Mandela family physician Nthato Motlana has died at his Johannesburg home after a long battle with cancer.

Occupation, not apartheid

Palestinians are not free. They suffer under an Israeli occupation that is sustained by a regime of violence, surveillance and control.

'Hell no, we won't go!'

It is 20 years to the week since the End Conscription Campaign was banned. Jonathan Ancer celebrates the remarkable movement of white activists.

The commissioner from Clairwood

South Africa’s Navi Pillay takes up the post of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in September.

Hero and villain emerge from SA

A bittersweet legacy from the brutalities of the apartheid years lingers in South African sport. Only whites represented the republic until 1970.

'Ching Chong' like the K-word

Chinese South Africans lived an oppressed twilight existence under apartheid, never really accepted by any group.

Xenophobia is apartheid

South African progressive forces must urgently reopen discussions on racism and xenophobia, argues Horace Campbell.

When darkies are dazed, leaders are few

I am not about to give up on "darkies" or offer nails for the coffin of black leadership.

Keeping it reel

The story of the late Onkgopotse Tiro is told in a brooding documentary by Steve Mokwena called A Blues for Tiro.

Ireland marks landmark anti-apartheid strike

Ireland paid tribute on Wednesday to a group of Irish shop workers who staged a landmark two-and-a-half-year long anti-apartheid strike in the 1980s.

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