Creator
Sisonke Msimang
Sisonke Msimang is the author of Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home, and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela. She is a fellow at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research
2021: The year of the whistleblower
Their role in our democracy has been invaluable, and they will need our protection and support
Rugby and rainbows
Reflecting on white joy, black celebration, and the meaning of the Springbok win at the 2019 Rugby World Cup
On hope and the death of nostalgia in South Africa
If South Africa is neither hopeful nor tragic, what posture should we take in relation to the future?
Politicians, media must make peace
Voters need to be well-informed and some arrangement must be made to end to the lies and misinformation
Reimagining an unburdened Winnie
Sisonke Msimang calls for legacy projects to honour a ‘bright red sun’ who was never able to skip, carefree, down a country lane
Flying home: He was always free
When Hugh Masekela blew his trumpet, you felt as if you were watching a human being in full flight
Trump rage ignores the truth
Poor people living in the slums of Africa and Haiti have indeed a miserable life.
Are South Africa’s anti-corruption crusaders racist?
‘It would be foolhardy to suggest that discussions about corruption in South Africa are race neutral’
How courts, media conspire to brutalise us
The law is on the side of men. It doesn’t reflect the real world of tears, torn panties and scepticism
When you think of heroes, rather listen to your heart
‘This book is about how I was made by the liberation struggle and how I was broken by it’
The Pied Piper of the broken-hearted: HIV activist Prudence Mabele
Pru was my guide to the new South Africa and the best role model, who didn’t tell me what to do, she showed me.
We need to reclaim the headlines
Every week on the radio and in the newspapers it was the same names and faces.
Can South Africans be friends across ‘racial’ boundaries? Yes and no.
Young black South Africans have been raised to believe that friendship across the races is an indicator of progress. Now, they are questioning this.
My journey of reading women, writing as a woman and growing a wide heart
Growing up, I was taught that reading was the key to life. Now I read to write.
Me, the Uber driver and Ali
The Uber driver and I both had smartphones and the app, but that did not mean that we inhabited the same world — not by a long shot.