Lisa Seftel started out in the labour movement before she took up positions in government. Now, as the head of Nedlac, she has to create a space where both sides can meet to discuss and debate important policy issues
The Weekly Mail hired him to get the training project off the ground; he did much, much more than that, writes Irwin Manoim
Nelson Mandela University and the Nelson Mandela Foundation are collaborating to realise Madiba’s dream of building a new society
The university with its rich history is not only the pride of the Eastern Cape but of the continent. It needs to regain its glorious status in academia and not only be in the news for unfortunate reasons
Apartheid’s last president walks back comments that definition was a Soviet plot
Nelson Mandela’s release from prison was also South Africa’s first ‘media event’. And, despite the NP’s, and the SABC’s, attempt to control the narrative, the force of Madiba’s personality meant that he emerged as a celebrity
His visionary pragmatism and his aim – together with SA’s citizens — is to build a capable state
Although leaders of the reconciliation era accept South Africa’s last white president, younger politicians are not as forgiving
Ladysmith Black Mambazo founder Joseph Shabalala passed on this morning. In 2009 Niren Tolsi spoke to him after the group received their third Grammy
My mother was a domestic worker and my father a miner, and I went to school in the townships
The painter, who hails from the DRC, is currently presenting his first solo exhibition outside his home country in Paris
Both countries have a strong orientation towards multilateralism and democratic values
Counsel for late trade unionist Neil Aggett’s family decries the slow pace of instituting an inquest into his death
The trade unionist was found hanged in his cell at the John Vorster Square police station in 1982
A resurgent conspiracy theory that Nelson Mandela died in 1985 reveals the growing hopelessness in South Africa that rampant inequality is irreversible
Lawfare: Major developments are on the cards where law and politics meet, including the first amendment to South Africa’s Bill of Rights
The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago but today we have more borders and walls than ever
What is the proper way for young Zimbabweans to remember Robert Mugabe’s legacy?
Picture the scene. Siya Kolisi, the first black Bok captain, raised in Zwide township outside of Port Elizabeth, lifting the World Cup
A sweetheart deal. This is how the Ingonyama Trust has been repeatedly described
Holding corrupt public and private officials to account is vital for our country’s wellbeing
It’s time to get serious about another SDG: ending violence against children
"Mandela’s values were not confined to realising political freedom but included issues such as environmental justice."
1994 set us on the path to freedom, but much must still be fixed and new problems await us
April 27 1994 set us on the path to freedom; but much must still be undone – and new problems await us
Two films about Mandela’s car come to different conclusions
The artworks build on and questions the legacy of Nelson Mandela
He was a loving but strict grandparent
The existing Mandela biographies don’t tell the whole story
Suu Kyi was once the darling of the foreign media, but her silence over the persecuted Rohingya minority has drawn widespread condemnation
A Gauteng elections research team says an ANC win in the province will mean the party has one last chance to ‘get it right’
Remembering South Africa’s first democratic elections: It’s easy to forget that things could have turned out very differently in South Africa