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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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.
Heribert Adam reflects on anti-apartheid journalism and how ”multipliers of liberal opinion” such as journalist Gerald Shaw can inform and educate.
There’s a growing volume of scholarship around South African music.
Ex-policeman Paul Erasmus tells of a post-1990 security police campaign to discredit Winnie Mandela in the world’s media, reports Stefaans Brummer