Beauty pageants are political. Calling these women role models, talking about their natural hair, their ambition, their voice is all political. Representing a country on a global stage is also political
Mixed reactions from South Africans as apartheid’s last president, FW de Klerk, dies after battling with cancer
The death of apartheid’s last leader means some questions now remain forever unanswered
FW De Klerk died in his home having suffered from cancer
Afrophobia is an imported anti-African sentiment that internalises colonialism because current state borders never existed in African societies
The Democratic Alliance leader rebuking cricketer Quinton de Kock would be this election season’s greatest triumph
FNB Art Joburg director Mandla Sibeko speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about this year’s Open City, during which unlikely spots are turned into art spaces
July’s violence and looting dealt a blow to business confidence
Veteran broadcaster Noxolo Grootboom talks to Denvor de Wee about her childhood in the rural Eastern Cape, the day her neighbour Chris Hani was murdered and the secret to her ageless beauty
Tirelessly working to build a home and a legacy only to be told you have no right over it once your husband dies or decides to divorce you — the story of black women who battled for justice
At a time when unemployment and poverty must be tackled head on, our country appears rudderless
The past cannot be erased, but leaders can choose how to respond to it and how to forge a better future
How does South Africa return to a pre-pandemic world, or at least one closely resembling it? That’s the question for policymakers as our country’s recovery lags its peers
This is an edited extract from Razina Theba’s new book ‘A Home on Vorster Street: A Memoir’
South Africans’ behaviour and attitudes show that poor black working-class people, and black women in particular, are denied
their innate humanity
Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book, ‘Neither Settler nor Native’ asks a political question: Rights for whom?
Veteran journalist Felicia Mabuza-Suttle tells us about how she dealt with patriarchy, her passion for youth development and why she is a germaphobe
The reopened inquest into the death in detention of Dr Hoosen Haffejee in 1977 has heard that the “pliant” magistrate at the original inquest, Trevor Blunden, ignored evidence that he was badly assaulted to exonerate the security police torturers who killed him. Haffejee, a Pietermartizburg-born dentist, died in detention at the Brighton Beach police station […]
Rita Ndzanga demonstrated that ordinary people together can do extraordinary things. It’s our turn now
Author and academic Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela spoke to Nicolene de Wee about the government’s failure to heal a broken country
Rebuilding is crucial, but democracies cannot allow themselves to be held to ransom by the destruction of anarchists in dictating where public funds should be spent
Dugald Macdonald made his Springbok debut against the British Lions in 1974, a disastrous experience difficult to forget
Judge Navi Pillay talks to Athandiwe Saba about being the daughter of a bus driver, a little girl who swore at school, and the pressure of being a leading woman in the world while being a mother at home
Complaining about ‘reverse racism’ and BEE serves no one. South Africa’s white youth should focus on entrepreneurship instead
‘The generation of 1976 did not fight to end the injustices of their time only for there to be the dawn of a climate apartheid’
His father took him to isangoma when he wanted to be an actor. Today Dr John Kani is revered the world over. He tells Athandiwe Saba about his passions
Labelling them in the same way as youth in the US leads to false perceptions and misunderstanding
Teacher training programmes need to cultivate a social consciousness to transform a system that abjects black learners
Thirty-three years since Dulcie September’s assassination, a new documentary hopes to bring her name back into the public consciousness
An installation and a documentary about the notorious residential school system amplify calls to define such deaths worldwide as genocide
Suntosh Pillay speaks to fellow psychologist Anton Botha, who is also a former UN staff member, about Israel and Palestine and whether or not the United Nations is abdicating its duties to maintain peace
Review: Bloody Sunday: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre by Mignonne Breier