This is an edited version of former co-editor Irwin Manoim’s speech delivered at a reunion of those who were there when the Weekly Mail, now the Mail & Guardian, was founded 40 years ago on 14 June
When a unity government was being formed in the 1990s there was suspicion and mistrust
The EFF leader changes his views faster than a Nigerian man running in flip-flops
The door-to-doors have door-to-doored and now it’s all over – except for the voting
Ten days before the first democratic election the extraordinary occurred when the leader of the liberation movement and that of the apartheid National Party sat down to talk
The change of street and place names rouses the country’s attention unlike anything else and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon
The Zulu traditional prime minister and his king quarrelled over the trust during his final months
As I enter the exhibition titled Names in Uphill Letters — A historiography of the newsmakers who tread(ed) South Africa’s soil, at the Workers Museum in Newtown, I encounter a photography lecturer, reflecting with a group of students on the picture frames by freelance photojournalist Jacob Mawela. The museum itself has a chequered history starting […]
The ruling party was unbanned 32 years ago on 2 February, but few ANC leaders can be feeling festive today
What can one fix with an 85-year-old white man whose apology to black people only surfaced after he is dead? The answer is nothing
His blanket apology did not cast him as a man of principle but as a man of cowardice
The problem with a racial superiority complex is that it does not come to an end with the abolishment of discriminatory laws but finds its expression informally
The regime’s last president may have ushered in democracy but he refused to take responsibility for the deeds of his National Party government
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
It’s been 30 years since South Africa signed the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and stuck to it
The 1990 documentary ‘South African Blues’ offers insight into the effects of exile on Jonas Gwangwa’s psyche
Covid has propelled citizens into feelings of a new shared identity in which the historical force of ‘whiteness’ is fading into irrelevance
A new book draws on the secret archive of NP justice minister Kobie Coetsee to paint a detailed picture of the lead-up to Nelson Mandela’s release. Shaun de Waal spoke to co-author Riaan de Villiers
Under the spotlight will be the Economic Freedom Fighters’ behaviour at the State of the Nation address and during the public enterprise department’s budget speech
Mangosuthu Buthelezi says the Ingonyama Trust was not created in a secret deal to ensure his participation in the 1994 election
The memory of the influential former leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress has been shunted to the margins in the country’s sham democracy
How Moe Shaik went from ANC spy to boss of the secret service in the democratic South Africa
Physical and psychological violence will continue unless we self-reflect on our apartheid scars
Corporations and banks that aided the apartheid regime have not been brought to book, so they continue to act with impunity
He’s apologised now, but my week was ruined when I had to delve into his past
Life moves at a heady pace in South Africa and with it the march of history. In dealing with the sins of yesterday we must realise that we have to also deal with the sins of yesteryear
Pressure is mounting on the NPA to charge the former president and others involved in political killings
during apartheid
In his Sona response, the president apologised for the weaponising of gender-based violence, saying the attack on the red beret leader was “uncalled for”
ANC MPs test the EFF’s disruptive tactics on the leader of the Red Berets in Sona reply
Apartheid’s last president walks back comments that definition was a Soviet plot