Our private and political lives are always punctuated by upheavals and storms. These moments signal the direction we should take. The unfolding political and economic crisis in South Africa presents a rich opportunity to chart a revolutionary path that could alter the future. We dare not miss this opening for a moral resetting of our […]
It would be refreshing if South Africans encountered political parties that actually walked the talk of embracing the ideals of nonracialism
The fight against racial classification during apartheid is not the same as race-based redress required now
Celebrated author and political activist Achmat Dangor died on Sunday
at the age of 71. Here, in a 1990 interview published in Staffrider, he speaks to Andries Walter
Oliphant about his work and aspects of South African literature and culture
A new book paints Africans as lacking agency in a post-apartheid vortex of structural racism.
Two decades since 1994, we’re still stuck in the racial categories of the old regime – a colour-coding of class from which only the rich benefit.
Church and state may be separated in South Africa, but people’s belief systems flow subtly through all our public discourses.