Sisonke Msimang
latest news & developmentsFighting for funds: A new era of HIV activism
Instead of the Aids denialism of decades past, it’s US funding cuts that could lead to up to 300 000 more HIV infections in the next four years. Activists like Sisonke Msimang…
Cliff and Steenhuisen are wrong. Here’s why race matters in South Africa
Both the podcast host and the leader of the Democratic Alliance believe in a toothless non-racialism that ignores the historical foundation of racism and the pain it inflicts in…
Writers on lockdown
Melinda Ferguson has gathered essays and stories from 40-plus contributors for Corona Chronicles
Rugby and rainbows
Reflecting on white joy, black celebration, and the meaning of the Springbok win at the 2019 Rugby World Cup
On hope and the death of nostalgia in South Africa
If South Africa is neither hopeful nor tragic, what posture should we take in relation to the future?
Politicians, media must make peace
Voters need to be well-informed and some arrangement must be made to end to the lies and misinformation
To reckon with Winnie’s ghost
This is not comfortable reading, says Sisonke Msimang
Winnie ‘unashamedly’ resurrected
The book may fall short of expectations because those who have canonised Winnie as the patron saint of black women’s emancipation may take offence.
Go beyond living up to Mandela
His legacy is couched in cisheteropatriarchy; social justice and equality need a new approach
Reimagining an unburdened Winnie
Sisonke Msimang calls for legacy projects to honour a ‘bright red sun’ who was never able to skip, carefree, down a country lane
Are South Africa’s anti-corruption crusaders racist?
‘It would be foolhardy to suggest that discussions about corruption in South Africa are race neutral’
Another country, another tear-gassing
"Last week in Kenya, I became a witness to police empowering the elite in much the same way as their counterparts in South Africa did".
We eat what we like … or do we?
Mama, back from exile, opened a pan-African restaurant but new elites wanted Western food.
A hard-hitting analysis of South Africa’s deepening malaise
Justice Malala argues that South Africa faces a governance and leadership crisis, rather than an economic crisis.
Hurricane Sandy: Disgust beats denial any day
South Africans may complain often and loudly, but that is far better than Americans’ paralysis, writes Sisonke Msimang.