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.
How exactly do you embrace popular opinion without going against the preconceptions of your own tribe, writes Jaco Fouche.
Viewed from the context of SA in 2012, Common Purpose reminds us of apartheid brutality, FW de Klerk’s recent protestations notwithstanding.
Mpho Moshe Matheolane thinks back to how he learnt his worth in South Africa – through the pain of his father’s apartheid memories.
In his heart, De Klerk was never a reformer, but rather a practitioner of realpolitik, even if it meant unbanning the ANC, writes Charles Leonard.
The ANC met with conservative Afrikaners last week – an event one critic labelled as ‘dangerous’. Charles Leonard reports.
Nikiwe Bikitsha describes how disturbing it was to watch Jessica Leandra dos Santos and Tshidi Thamana at their kiss-and-make-up press conference.
Two representatives from Palestine and Israel repeatedly heard the region’s conflict called "apartheid". They explain why this idea is inaccurate.
Advocate Salie Joubert has accused controversial cardiologist Dr Wouter Basson of being an "untruthful witness" and not accepting responsibility.
<em>NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT</em> by Nadine Gordimer (Picador Africa).
Comparing Israel with the apartheid state has been going on for years. Now a new documentary film explores the comparison in disturbing detail.
Victims of apartheid will receive R10 000 as a result of a settlement between General Motors in the United States
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/ 16 February 2012
Apartheid or democracy, colour is still an issue in relationships.
The politics of apartheid constrained both the substance and the form of David Manisi’s poetry.
Umkhonto WeSizwe (MK) marked its 50th anniversary by urging the state to look after ex-combatants who fought against apartheid.
Isaac and Joan Ngwenya have an exceptional story from the apartheid era, whereby every citizen was classified by race.
<i>British Magnum</i> photographer Ian Berry’s odyssey in South Africa is charted in an exhibition at the Liverpool International Slavery Museum.
30 Years after the first cases of Aids were reported, 17 since the end of apartheid — here’s a story about how the virus has helped bridge division.
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.