The National Prosecuting Authority will reopen the inquest into the death of Dr Hoosen Haffejee, who died in police custody in 1977
Immigrants self-identify differently – and they can help their new country become truly nonracial
A pre-trial hearing into the torture and murder of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol is set down for Tuesday
A clan’s claim to prime areas of the capital has been dogged by controversy
In this Sound Africa podcast, Candice Nolan tries to find the answers she is looking for by looking in an old bible
‘The unrepentant violence of white ignorance has consequences for people of colour that are continually overlooked,’ writes Kopano Maroga
In the 1980s, the apartheid state imposed successive states of emergency, including censorship of the media
‘Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa dwell in my mind as I try to understand our histories, our now and our possible futures’
‘Class, in other words, is much more than just one aspect of the social complex,’ writes one of our readers
The Union of South Africa and the women struggle for visibility in the courts
As Mandela said, education is the most potent weapon we have to create a truly free and equal South Africa
Khoi Revivalists denounce racist groups using its name and want the apartheid category eliminated
Rodrigues appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on charges of murder and defeating the ends of justice
Almost 46 years since his death, the high court last year found that Timol died at the hands of apartheid security branch police while in detention
This is the story of a man and his mother, set in the transition years between the old and the new South Africa
The dangerous re-ethnicisation of SA politics must be stopped lest it lead to the same ethnonationalism that caused bloodshed in Rwanda and Yugoslavia
We need to move towards refining our understanding of the causes behind structural and racialised inequality
Michael Richman’s career was closely linked with those who suffered the injustices of apartheid
History needs to focus on historical consciousness if students are to become capable of dealing with South Africa’s social problems
Apartheid has been removed from the statute books for almost three decades. But a de facto apartheid endures both economically and socially
This is the second episode in the new Sound Africa series “Re-visits.”
The veteran photographer who ‘captured the full brutality of apartheid oppression’ died over the weekend
‘People always ask how can I look like a white person, but not be white’
The NPA is relooking at the ANC leader’s 1967 death, and those of other activists
A new wave of activism has swept over the Cape suburb, as residents band together to target gangs
With the Timol inquest findings overturned, there’s hope that the truth about Hoosen Haffejee will be known
On Human Rights Day, thousands of people who demand land justice marched from District Six to the Cape Town Civic Centre
There was a time long ago, and not so long ago, when Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma represented the potential the liberation of an oppressed people held.
Top-down regulatory measures come to naught, so the battle must be fought from the bottom up
A people’s tribunal on economic crimes in South Africa has heard submissions on how big corporations evaded the TRC
For Bophuthatswana leader Lucas Mangope’s death brings into focus the role of bantustans and their leaders in upholding apartheid’s mission.
Colonialism and apartheid were all-encompassing systems, involving institutions, professions and the public and private sectors.