Latest articles on Heritage Day

Human Rights Day: South Africa continues to neglect the legacy of Robert Sobukwe

Article Thando Sipuye - 20 Mar 2020

The memory of the influential former leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress has been shunted to the margins in the country’s sham democracy

SA has a legacy of trauma

Article Alec Basson & Kim Wale - 20 Sep 2019

Transforming the symbols of apartheid violence is not the endpoint of addressing our heritage

Multicultural SA offers a great benefit

Article Natasha Robinson - 23 Nov 2018

Understanding and being able to work with different people is a globally sought-after skill

Children must be able to read with comprehension about their heritage

Article Staff Reporter - 12 Sep 2018

Literacy in South Africa has to improve if people are to have a better quality of life

Our stories adorn us

Article Zaza Hlalethwa - 23 Feb 2018

The meaning of traditional attire is being lost. But does it matter? Gogo Jessie Mabona thinks it does

Black Panther is more than just representation

Article Zukiswa Wanner - 23 Feb 2018

It has awoken in me a sense of pride and dignity I had no idea I had lost from all those many years of being erased in international public discourse

The granular affects of the ordinary

Article Youlendree Appasamy - 19 Jan 2018

We contain multitudes in our everydayness. Youlendree Appasamy tries to unpick the meaning — or lack of it — in ordinary interactions and feelings

Zuma blames apartheid for corruption

Article bogdan TagDiv - 24 Sep 2017

"Let us unite against corruption and crime in our communities and in our country. These scourges should not divide us at all"

And God said: ‘Go braai, hang or whatever’

Article bogdan TagDiv - 22 Sep 2017

'South Africa, God loved you and left you a precious heirloom: Heritage Day, a day off from work to be spent at home or elsewhere'

Heritage Day: Diary of a white English-speaking South African

Article bogdan TagDiv - 22 Sep 2016

Many just go out there and braai but others spend the day obsessing about identity, what is cultural, whose culture and whether it's appropriation.

Rand slips to all-time low on heritage day

Article Staff Reporter - 28 Sep 2015

As SA markets took the day off on heritage day the rand dipped past 14 to the dollar for the second time in four weeks and slipped to an all-time low.

Sophiatown gets back in the mix for heritage month

Article bogdan TagDiv - 24 Sep 2015

Sophiatown Heritage and Cultural Centre has become a lighthouse for a cultural expansion into a future Sophiatown cultural and heritage precinct.

Why heritage should be used to interpret the past and forge the future

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Sep 2015

Many South Africans have come to associate Heritage Day with a good opportunity to have a braai, but it's so much more than that.

Facts and the rest is history

Article bogdan TagDiv - 24 Oct 2014

Heritage Day celebrations rarely make reference to historical figures except for some of those in the anti-apartheid struggle, a reader writes.

Most SA citizens satisfied with social cohesion except whites, coloureds

Article Mmanaledi Mataboge - 24 Sep 2014

New findings show that over 55% of South Africans feel united this Heritage Day, but some race groups are still sceptical about these efforts.

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