We buried a young black man with heavy hearts. The two collected prizes drenched in the blood of a black man. That is what stands out in our minds when we see them. Justice for our brother is still outstanding. As we say in isiXhosa, ityala aliboli!
I remain close to the places where ordinary black life meets the police, the farmer, the mine and the state face to face. That ground has no patience for fashionable radicalism. That ground exposes every counterfeit. Speaking from the safety of a donor-funded human rights NGO is ‘Butlerism’ on steroids. So is abandoning the Black Land First formation for the security of a career in Parliament
The judiciary and legal academy entrenched the same exclusion. They protected the existing order through property law, constitutional abstraction and procedural sanctity. They elevated form above the history of conquest. They treated settler possession as the legal present and African dispossession as historical background
Known for speaking truth to power, Lekota’s contributions to democracy, education and social development have left an indelible mark on South Africa’s journey toward equality and dignity for all citizens
The story of South African jazz-fusion is incomplete without the bassists whose innovations quietly carried the music forward
The renowned choreographer returns to the Baxter not as performer but architect, with Genesis, a daring meditation on beginnings, endings and Black consciousness
For decades, the island was a towering emblem of punishment—first for enslaved labourers and lepers under colonial rule and later for the anti-apartheid resisters who dared to defy a brutal system
Every person regardless of colour is affected by a system that debases blackness and elevates whiteness
Musicians have carried his ideology forward – but what would he make of today’s politics?
Leveraging colour as a means of progress can have a paradoxical effect of self-incarceration
Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata’s impressive African history book by non-historians
We must leverage local knowledge and materials to develop an architecture uniquely suited to our needs and conditions
The poet, writer, artist and activist, who made rubbish of race, left his mark on all aspects of our lives
Historian and author Zikhona Valela unravels the life and death of Black Consciousness activist Mapetla Mohapi, who died in detention in 1976
The party of socialist Black Consciousness has fresh leaders and a pact with the Pan Africanist Congress to begin working at the local level to create a viable and radical Left
Celebrated author and political activist Achmat Dangor died on Sunday
at the age of 71. Here, in a 1990 interview published in Staffrider, he speaks to Andries Walter
Oliphant about his work and aspects of South African literature and culture
Pleiades: Isilimela, the latest poetry collection by Vusi Mchunu — who writes under his clan name, Macingwane — is a deeply personal meditation
The youth of today can learn from the youth of 1976, who rose up and rejected the Bantu education system
Judy Seidman responds to Athi Mongelezi Joja’s expanded assessment of her ‘Drawn Lines’ exhibition
We should be wary of taking theories of commitment and agency as self-evident; we should instead question their unspoken assumptions as we also question the motivations attendant to them
From his adventures with Steve Biko to his support for shack dwellers in KwaZulu-Natal, Bishop Emeritus Rubin Phillip has always walked the talk of radical Christianity
Journalist and Tiro’s nephew Gaongalelwe gives us a glimpse into the young firebrand’s life.
The president may have kept his cards close to his chest but now he has to make bold moves
Secrecy and the selective education of a few led to the fall of the Ancient Egyptians
A new history of student politics at Turfloop in the 1970s shines light on student activist Tiro
We failed to protect him when we heard his cries. This reveals to us the precarity of our own lives under racial capitalism
Whiteness once again robs black and brown South Africans of their legacy by reducing it to ‘Braai Day’
Our readers write in about: violence, foreign business, the ICC and Syria
The president has called on South Africa to regain its humanity and moral compass
Our readers write in about the issue of the ‘national question’ raised by the EFF
Black women must not compromise their commitment to ending white supremacy
Celebrating the first ‘black’ or ‘African’ woman to get a doctorate in philosophy raises critical issues