Memoir is a gripping account of journalistic bravery, father-son reckonings and resilience
This book is an important fightback against the re-emergence of racist genetic determinism
The last decade has seen a revival of a very old and long-discredited idea: that intelligence is influenced by racial origin.
Big promises were made to keep Scotland in the union, now it’s time for backpedalling.
Alan Wieder’s biography on Joe Slovo and Ruth First focuses on the couple’s relationship, their different personalities and opposing views.
Ronnie Kasrils names his comrades in the fourth edition of his book about the struggle. Other than that, not much is new.
Donald McRae’s ability as a storyteller turns the everyday into the exceptional.
The man who evaded arrest for 27 years tells <b>Gavin Evans</b> about his life on the run, his remorse and his unshakable links to South Africa.
The British National Party (BNP), the premier neo-fascist organisation in the United Kingdom, is reeling from worse-than-expected results in local elections last week — not least in London, where the campaign was coordinated by some- time South African Arthur Kemp. Forty-one-year-old Kemp’s high point of notoriety came from his role in the assassination of Chris Hani in 1993.
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/ 13 September 2002
I joined quite late in the day: December 1986. For Martin Amis — whose new memoir on Stalinism, Koba the Dread, has been making waves in Britain — this sentence should be followed by reams of penance. After all, by then I could hardly claim ignorance.
Selective amnesia is a useful tool for political survival — not least when it comes to remembering the dead. So it is that African National Congress leaders have been falling over themselves in the effusiveness of their praise for Peter Mokaba, following his death last Sunday morning.
The African National Congress has deftly turned certain defeat into a minor triumph with its right turn on a renewed sports boycott.
The MDM had prior knowledge that jailed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela was about to meet State President FW de Klerk.
The hit squad that killed David Webster carried out their attack with ruthless efficiency. Many believe the police are responsible for his death.
The African National Congress mortar attack on a South African Defence Force radar installation in the Western Transvaal.
The nine-week-old detainees hunger strike has ended.
White school principals have been instructed to ensure that teachers patrol their schools in pairs on "sensitive" days in the calender.
The 10-week boycott of the <i>Daily Dispatch</i> has ended after a front-page apology by the newspaper’s management.