House of Bondage: The book that shocked the world
Bulelwa Mabasa tells the story of how her love for land reform and justice is tied to her family and upbringing
Juby Mayet did something no ‘Malay girl had ever done’ in reporting for a ‘naytiff paper’. Her memoir tells her story
Castigating, rather than encouraging, business leaders when they advocate for harsh interventions sets us all back
Drunk on hubris, the UK’s Tory party has followed a populist path to instability. The ANC and its opposition peers follow a similar path
That we live in a world where the far right has become normalised should ring alarm bells
Capital markets are no longer falling over themselves to fund our electricity generation, but South Africa’s leaders should have acted with urgency years ago
The boundaries and jurisdictions of high courts in Transkei Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei have never been changed
Lensman Mbuzeni Zulu’s subjects ranged from black popular culture to bloody unrest
The ANC, heads to this weekend’s policy conference more concerned with pushing back on attempts to improve governance than finding solutions to the many structural fault lines that have been so crudely exposed by our economic deterioration since the outbreak of the pandemic
Municipality guilty of discrimination as townships run dry while middle-class suburbs are unaffected by the crisis
The poet, writer, artist and activist, who made rubbish of race, left his mark on all aspects of our lives
Experience Rosebank’s Art Mile with Thabo Jacob Modise, aka Thabo The Tourist
The state has to employ another one million people to match international standards
The secret headquarters of the anti-apartheid struggle and the events that took place there in the early 1960s hold stories well worth sharing
The cost of the UK queen’s jubilee festivities has been absorbed by the taxpayer – an estimated £28-million, or R544,5-million
Some white people think any discussion of racism or its legacy is an attempt to shame or condemn them for the ‘sin’ of their whiteness
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Stellenbosch University says the past cannot be undone but it will work to resist its legacy
What happens in Israel and Palestine does not affect Israelis and Palestinians, alone. It fuels a global fault-line of mistrust, suspicion, intolerance and violence
To celebrate International Museum Day, we look at10 culturally-relevant museums in African
One cannot choose one’s race or nationality, but one can choose one’s political views and live by those choices
Arts education is critical, because it has the capacity to liberate learners from economic, social and political forces. What’s needed is funding, training and political will
With the induction last week of the Rashid Lombard Archive at the University of the Western Cape his photography and stories will soon be accessible to a new generation.
The ongoing Afrophobic behaviour in our country is misdirected anger and frustration at the fact that black South Africans still have to make do with welfare crumbs
Apartheid as a crime against humanity has reached customary international law status, which means that it is law that is considered binding on states under international law even if a state has not ratified an applicable treaty prohibiting apartheid
South Africa’s silence on Russian aggression is a blot on its commitment to international law and our country’s history
Showmax’s ‘Sex in Afrikaans’ explores the continued taboo of representing sex in the Afrikaans language
Having Black teachers in the classrooms of what are commonly still considered ‘white schools’ would not only be beneficial to Black learners, but to learners of all races
However, contemporary artists such as Cinga Samson, Zanele Muholi and Mohau Modisakeng found a liberating ally in self-portraiture
‘We will engage in a rugged struggle to ensure that all those who are implicated in the State Capture report are brought to book’
Israel is scaling up its information war ahead of a UNHRC session at the end of February that will table a report into last year’s bombing of Gaza
Two M&G articles defending trans-exclusionary views draw on the insidious anti-trans rhetoric flourishing in the UK, but ignore our country’s constitutional protections