‘People always ask how can I look like a white person, but not be white’
A new wave of activism has swept over the Cape suburb, as residents band together to target gangs
The NPA is relooking at the ANC leader’s 1967 death, and those of other activists
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.
The facts not in dispute are that Cecil John Rhodes was an “arch-imperialist and white supremacist who treated people of this region as sub-human"
The public protector was grilled so badly in court that she was left fighting for her professional life
Lord Peter Hain has requested an "immediate investigation" into bank accounts held in London by South African state owned enterprises
The state needs civil society to help to combat malnutrition, which stunts children’s potential
The Reserve Bank and Absa have lost their cool and the court battle promises to be ugly
Zimbabwe is still suffering from having to pay off loans accrued by a pre-independence white supremacist government.
This week the Mail & Guardian is proud to publish a story that is a continuation of a new, specialised reporting genre,
Large-scale government corruption existed before the rise to power of the ANC, journalist and author Pieter-Louis Myburgh said on Wednesday.
It is set to be the first prosecution of its kind for the death in detention of an anti-apartheid activist.
“Long live Ahmed Timol, long live!”.
We must resist the Mandelaisation of Steve Biko.
Biko encouraged looking ”forward with confidence to the future, rather than be burdened by negative thoughts of uncertainty because of bad governance”
Salim Essop was given photographs of apartheid Security Police officers and showed presiding Judge Billy Mothle the men who tortured him.
Who to believe: The apartheid cops or the doctors who say it wasn’t possible for the activist to jump?
Private investigator Frank Dutton insists that previous investigations into Ahmed Timol’s death amounted to a "cover up of the truth".
Who was Tiny Rowland, and why was he jetting into Waterkloof three decades before the Guptas were offered this privileged access?
The second sitting of the inquest into apartheid activist Ahmed Timol’s death began at the Pretoria high court on Monday.
Ray Phiri and Johnny Mekoa survived apartheid, succumbing to mortality while leaving behind exemplary legacies.
There remains little leadership and direction from government on improving the accountability and services of the police
Five decades later, and the UN’s powerful Western nations are, again, protecting an apartheid regime.
Critics say it drives up prices; it says it brings them down. The M&G takes a closer look.
That the public protector’s finding on Absa is going to become a terrible political mess is inevitable, writes Phillip de Wet.