Civil society is spitting mad about proposed regulations gazetted by government that would govern reparations to people who suffered during apartheid.
President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday spoke of how proud he was at the "substantial progress" South Africa has made since 1994.
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/ 3 December 2010
His doorstopper of a biography is nearly ready, but Pik Botha doesn’t like it one bit. He talks to the M&G as part of our 25th anniversary series.
The cosy relationship between apartheid SA and Israel was underscored this week when information about a nuclear deal during the 1970s came to light.
New Zealand and South Africa’s rugby unions made apologies on Friday for excluding Maori and black players from their teams during the apartheid era.
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/ 2 February 2010
Twenty years after announcing Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, former SA president FW de Klerk commemorated the speech.
Prime Evil appeals to Zuma’s sense of fair play as a
former enemy in arms, writes Mandy Rossouw.
The testimonies left by Number Four jail’s non-white inmates are a stark reminder of a brutal and barbaric regime.
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/ 20 November 2009
Percy Zvomuya talks to Antjie Krog about King
Moshoeshoe, belonging and whether the English language can carry the burden of South African experience.
The country’s education system will take ”decades” to shake off apartheid’s legacy, ANC general secretary Gwede Mantashe said on Thursday.
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/ 26 September 2009
The black body is not suited to ballet, dancer Thoriso Magongwa was told by choreographer Martin Schönberg at the Ballet Theatre Afrikan.
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/ 23 September 2009
Njabulo S Ndebele explores the collective anguish of a nation trying to find the way past race and into leadership.
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/ 13 September 2009
It’s not often that the halls of the Cape Town Waterfront offer up experiences of profound reflection that make you reconsider the citizenship.
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/ 3 September 2009
SA has overturned a decision not to support class action for apartheid reparations from eight US-based companies, it was reported on Thursday.
SA President Jacob Zuma made an emotional pilgrimage on Friday to a former anti-apartheid guerrilla camp in Angola.
The new government is window-dressing to conceal motives that have nothing to do with the welfare of the country.
Cosatu’s Zwelinzima Vavi on Tuesday blamed apartheid for the current state of the education system, despite 16 years under a new democratic regime.
Apartheid minister Adriaan Vlok and ex-police chief Johann van der Merwe are among the 100 convicted criminals who will not be granted pardons soon.
Elizma is a born free. As old as SA’s 15-year-old democracy, she will never carry a pass, be denied the vote or forced to use a separate to toilet.
The conflation of the ruling party with the government and the state is fuelled by the myth of the party as the liberator of a passive citizenry.
SA victims of apartheid received permission in the US this week to continue their pursuit of damage payments from five major US and German firms.
The SABC has been reprimanded for an unbalanced report creating the impression that only the security forces committed atrocities during apartheid.
While the loss of Helen Suzman is to be mourned, her life must be celebrated, the Helen Suzman Foundation said on Thursday.
Helen Suzman has died at the age of 91. Her daughter Frances Jowell said she died peacefully this morning at her home in Johannesburg.
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/ 1 December 2008
Anti-apartheid activist, businessman and Mandela family physician Nthato Motlana has died at his Johannesburg home after a long battle with cancer.
Palestinians are not free. They suffer under an Israeli occupation that is sustained by a regime of violence, surveillance and control.
South Africa’s Navi Pillay takes up the post of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in September.
A bittersweet legacy from the brutalities of the apartheid years lingers in South African sport. Only whites represented the republic until 1970.
Chinese South Africans lived an oppressed twilight existence under apartheid, never really accepted by any group.
South African progressive forces must urgently reopen discussions on racism and xenophobia, argues Horace Campbell.
I am not about to give up on ”darkies” or offer nails for the coffin of black leadership.
Ireland paid tribute on Wednesday to a group of Irish shop workers who staged a landmark two-and-a-half-year long anti-apartheid strike in the 1980s.