Gavin Evans

The book of the US boxer’s double life is packed with pathos, writes Gavin Evans.

The anticipation for the "Fight of the Century" is palpable and the boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will rake in cash.

The last decade has seen a revival of a very old and long-discredited idea: that intelligence is influenced by racial origin.

Radical white students played an important role in opposing apartheid and paved the way for Cosatu.

Big promises were made to keep Scotland in the union, now it’s time for backpedalling.

Alan Wieder’s biography on Joe Slovo and Ruth First focuses on the couple’s relationship, their different personalities and opposing views.

Ronnie Kasrils names his comrades in the fourth edition of his book about the struggle. Other than that, not much is new.

With its confusing title and sloppy research, this book on the ECC is not worth soldiering through.

It was fitting that the first South African to be invited to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral on Wednesday was the last apartheid leader.

Donald McRae’s ability as a story­teller turns the everyday into the exceptional.

The man who evaded arrest for 27 years tells <b>Gavin Evans</b> about his life on the run, his remorse and his unshakable links to South Africa.

Defunct political organisations don’t get to celebrate anniversaries. Usually, they just fade away.

In 1994 there were 200 polling stations in more than 60 countries, with an estimated half a million potential voters, each with the right to choose their South African region of…

Lennox Lewis feels he is on the victory lap of his long career. After a year in the pasture, he planned to test the waters once more against Canada’s Kirk Johnson before taking…

Piet Rooi adjusts his Union Jack cap, pushes his glasses up his nose and smiles at the inanity of my question about why he used the hoodia plant. ”Hoekom [Why]?” he asks.…