The DA has started its election campaign by trying to rebrand itself as a participant in the fight against apartheid. But the ANC is not buying it.
We can continue blaming apartheid for most things, but we have to take responsibility and not be paralysed by the past, writes Khaya Dlanga.
Because of the explosive political power of the past there is a tendency to simplify it to suit our emotional, political or other selfish needs.
Former president FW de Klerk says he feels privileged to have been invited to London to attend the funeral of Margaret Thatcher.
Zuma vs Manuel on apartheid, the ANC Youth League’s new task team, and the authenticity of the presidential handbook is the politics you need to know.
Claims by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu that South Africa is one of the most violent nations have been dismissed by cabinet.
Some South Africans fear that apartheid would return if the Democratic Alliance led the country, says the party’s leader Helen Zille.
The truth is that we do not know what Chris Hani would have done, or become, had he lived.
Paul Motshabi was badly beaten by the AWB in 1996. Now he lives quietly in the township of Makokskraal.
The presidency says that there is no contradiction between what President Jacob Zuma and Minister Trevor Manuel said about the legacy of apartheid.
Nineteen years after apartheid, South Africans are still divided over whether the Iron Lady helped or hindered the system of white rule.
It is time for government to take responsibility for its actions, Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel has said.
In a wonderful, terrible city that wears its scars on its sleeve, Lauren van Vuuren discovers the Berlin in all of us.
It is now 19 years later, and those found breaking the law are mostly under 30. So, in which way did apartheid play a role?
Unlike most South Africans, who think of Nelson Mandela on his day of release, Charles Leonard thinks fondly of Madiba on February 26 every year.
Most people think of the dark days of apartheid or the scenes from Abu Ghraib. But torture is right here at home, writes Thalia Holmes.
Gillian Schutte’s ‘Dear White People’ letter has caused a little national furore. Most whites have reacted with predictable irritation.
There are many benevolent Bongos in Hout Bay. They have built crches and quality schools for children from less privileged backgrounds.
In 2013 a fund for the victims of apartheid will have more cash than it did when it was created as it continues to accumulate interest.
When saying sorry isn’t nearly enough, there is a way for you to wear your apartheid apology on your shirt.
To equate Israel with apartheid, as Gideon Levy does displays a profound ignorance of the horror that was South Africa.
Did the rupture of a blood vessel in PW Botha’s brain prevent SA from starting the process of a negotiated settlement in 1985 rather than in 1990?
The Rubicon speech was received with great dismay by South Africa’s diplomats, writes Pieter Wolvaardt.
Israelis like the idea of democracy, but openly advocate discrimination against Arab citizens. How can people embrace a word synonymous with evil?
Hermann Giliomee explains how former president PW Botha’s Rubicon speech increased white South Africa’s isolation in 1985.
Reading ‘Pastrami and apartheid’ gives the impression that there is only one side to this conflict and only one narrative, says areader.
Which path should post-apartheid South Africa take in its relation with Israel, a country with its own brand of modern-day apartheid?
Students from the Dagbreek men’s residence at Stellenbosch University have offered an unusual apology to the country for its involvement in apartheid.
The monumental sculpture, which will be unveiled in Howick, is made up of 50 steel rods of between five and 10m high symbolising a prison.
Twenty years on, the events of the massacre are contested and people remain divided and angry, writes the M&G’s ombudsman Franz Kruger.
Beware of repeating the apartheid era’s fatal error of failing to heed the people’s desperate cries, writes Sandi Baai.
Had the blind, evil apartheid regime acted responsibly on June 16 1976, many a life would have been saved.