The former ANC MP was known as one of SA’s foremost thinkers and an author of the Freedom Charter
Fifty years ago, the anti-apartheid activist was killed in police custody. His family fought to survive after his death, and now they want justice.
In early 2018 the witness reversed his decision to give evidence about his last hours alive after the Hawks were 2 weeks late to take his statement
Colonel James Taylor will not be brought to book for his role in the death of Dr Hoosen Haffejee because of delays in getting the case to court
João ‘Jan’ Rodrigues’ application for a stay of prosecution has been dismissed. He will stand trial for the 1971 murder of activist Ahmed Timol
Were she alive, she would have shared the award with everybody
‘She is the embodiment of humanity; evidently, as a nurse, but above all, as a mother of Azania’
The two countries have similar experiences in injustices and systemic oppression
Lord Peter Hain has requested an "immediate investigation" into bank accounts held in London by South African state owned enterprises
“Long live Ahmed Timol, long live!”.
Timol’s family has spent the past four decades building a case to prove that the security police tortured and killed him
"The autobiography has as its linchpin political history, in particular the history of the ANC in South Africa before, during and after being banned."
“’We are Namibians, and not South Africans,’ he told the Supreme Court during his trial in Pretoria in 1967-1968"
South Africa and Mozambique on Monday commemorated the 30th anniversary of the former Mozambican president’s tragic death
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the anti-pass march to the Union Buildings, we profile 60 of its participants and organisers
Transparency will help the prevention of political killings, but most of all the governing coalition must act decisively against the phenomenon.
We can’t allow our elder heroes to fade from society, they still have glorious stories to tell, argues Ra’eesa Pather.
Many know about Sharpeville. Few know about the anti-pass march in Soweto on the same day in March 1960.
The party misjudged the power of capitalism, selling out those it had pledged to free.
Our present-day leaders use the power of memory as a remote control to engender obeisance.
Anti-apartheid campaigner and retired bishop David Russell has died of cancer aged 75. He fought against forced removals and for same-sex marriage.
US civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson has called on young South Africans to go to school because their country was "free but not equal".
The links between apartheid South Africa and Israel have been highlighted, with Israel supplying weapons to South Africa during the arms embargo.
Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel says South Africans need to be more active in politics than they were during the anti-apartheid struggle.
Accused of fraudulent payouts, the unit is leaving bona fide freedom fighters mired in bureaucracy.
Despite a damning probe, neither the fraudsters nor officials who abetted them have been charged.
Ruth First pursued a better life for all Africans, but she was killed by a letter bomb 12 years before the liberation of her country.
The Aglican Archbishop of Cape Town has praised the late Frederik Van Zyl Slabber for his role in South Africa’s peaceful transition to democracy.