Beneficiaries crying oppression are eating at the table apartheid set for them — and complaining when someone else is finally offered a chair
These towns are not anomalies, they are barometers of how far South Africa still needs to go in confronting the unfinished business of its past.
Omar Badsha’s journey from quiet observer to defiant artist in apartheid South Africa
One Hundred Years of Dispossession: My Family’s Quest to Reclaim Our Land traces his family’s ongoing struggle to strengthen their restitution case
Duma Nokwe is the ideal example of the calibre of leader the world is crying out for today
The country’s biggest city will continue to grow as people seek jobs and a better life. But a ‘resentment’ towards urbanisation has prevented the government from unlocking its economic opportunities
Books and academic articles tell us our own stories and help others to understand them
Given its rich heritage, the area should be considered a historically important site in which black landowner rights are integral
Through a combination of architectural photographs and autobiographical stories, a new book constructs memories of this historic neighbourhood
The coronavirus pandemic dealt the District Six Museum a heavy blow, forcing it to close its doors. But the fighting spirit of its patrons has opened them again.
Cape Town’s oldest Black rugby club personifies the problems Black rugby faces, including attempts to have its history erased, being affected by apartheid and struggling financially for good resources
Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap community was effectively sealed off from visitors more than
a week before the president’s announcement
Families were forcibly removed during apartheid and this dispossession has not been rectified during democracy
An exhibition draws on people’s personal albums to reconstruct a past that is missing from current narratives
There were small gains to be had by finding loopholes in the laws that bolstered apartheid
Development initiatives need to consider the contexts, past and present, in which they occur to ensure human-centred solutions
It has been largely successful but limited by family fights and an urban land shortage
The acclaimed author unwittingly finds herself in disputed territory but she sticks to her principles and keeps on fighting
The way in which land is expropriated is just as important as the outcomes that are achieved
"Do I go Winnie or Mandela on him? Urrrggghhhh, I’m just trying to get fit, I don’t want to think about racism right now bletty shet".
‘Grace’ explores the imbalance of concealing and confronting as well as inherited histories and the complex ways they influence the future