Our present-day leaders use the power of memory as a remote control to engender obeisance.
Gavin Evans, a former South African journalist, tackles the notion that intelligence is skin deep.
What is the real issue facing South African writers after apartheid?
The real problem between black and white South Africans is not white people’s attitude, but the government’s desertion of black people.
Her last column was a plea for empathy and understanding, writes Verashni Pillay, not an attempt to drive white guilt.
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/ 26 February 2015
Considering the fact that we are desperately trying to reduce racial stress in South Africa, I am shocked that this column was allowed to be posted.
The story of Assata Shakur – wanted by the FBI since 1973 – shows how revolutionaries do not ‘drop from the moon’ but are shaped by society.
The motives of the ‘last apartheid president’ can only be truly understood within a 20-year context.
Mandela was a far wilier politician, and could be less saintly, than some other portrayals would have us believe, writes Robin Renwick.
David Goldblatt salutes a photographer whose work speaks fluently about people and events
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/ 19 January 2015
Wouter Basson and his legal team walked out of his sentencing hearing to file an urgent interdict at the high court in Pretoria.
President Jacob Zuma used the ANC’s birthday celebrations as an opportunity to again shift the blame for the country’s energy crisis to apartheid.
Upon further exploration the Rosetta spacecraft discovered not God, but a lost sermon from the Almighty – and it appears he is pissed off with us.
A collection of cricket artefacts in Fordsburg proves Frank Worrell’s nonracial credentials.
SA’s energy problems were a product of apartheid and government was not to blame for the current blackouts, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.
The jubilation bought about by the end of apartheid has caused us to stray from the path of reconciliation.
On the second day of the trial, Wouter Basson’s lawyer went for the kill, while a witness said Basson’s actions cannot go unpunished.
The Afrikaans pop star has a big whinge on board, and he can’t shut up about it. He doesn’t see how well-off he is.
Nat Nakasa, who died in 1965, was one of those who were ground down by the alienation of exile. A friend recalls the time.
Pursuing freedom, our system now – paradoxically – disempowers pupils.
Noam Chomsky states that if Israel is boycotted, the same fate should befall the United States. He further believes that a boycott could backfire.
The high court has ordered the justice and correctional services minister to consider parole for former police death squad commander Eugene de Kock.
M&G readers comment on the next five years under President Jacob Zuma, compare David Webster with Steve Biko and call for street name changes in CT.
Stellenbosch is a top institution, but why are architects of racism still being honoured there?
Remembering a fearful childhood encounter just brings home how far freedom has brought us, writes Nikiwe Bikitsha.
To celebrate 20 years of freedom, the M&G went back to the unfree years and picked 20 absurd apartheid moments.
South Africa requires the same levels of wisdom, insight, passion and leadership it had 20 years ago in order to complete the transformation.
Twenty-four years after Nelson Mandela was freed from prison, Zelda le Grange remembers what he taught her – with freedom comes responsibility.
General Constand Viljoen says Afrikaners need to establish a political bloc to survive ANC majoritarianism.
Dan Roodt and other Afrikaner have activists recently launched a new political platform, which aims to fight for Afrikaner self-determination.
Nelson Mandela’s departure from office was a blow from which the commission never recovered.
It is also important to stress that April 27 did not constitute the victory of some South Africans over others, as it is often presented now.