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 say the past has answers for the present fight
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 the present
Melinda Ferguson has gathered essays and stories from 40-plus contributors for Corona Chronicles
Reflecting on white joy, black celebration, and the meaning of the Springbok win at the 2019 Rugby World Cup
If South Africa is neither hopeful nor tragic, what posture should we take in relation to the future?
Voters need to be well-informed and some arrangement must be made to end to the lies and misinformation
This is not comfortable reading, says Sisonke Msimang
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.
His legacy is couched in cisheteropatriarchy; social justice and equality need a new approach
Sisonke Msimang calls for legacy projects to honour a ‘bright red sun’ who was never able to skip, carefree, down a country lane
‘It would be foolhardy to suggest that discussions about corruption in South Africa are race neutral’
"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".
Mama, back from exile, opened a pan-African restaurant but new elites wanted Western food.
Justice Malala argues that South Africa faces a governance and leadership crisis, rather than an economic crisis.
South Africans may complain often and loudly, but that is far better than Americans’ paralysis, writes Sisonke Msimang.
In 1976 we were toddlers. Although both of us are black and female, our lives were profoundly different then. When freedom came in 1994, one of us was a 21-year-old studying in the United States. The other — age 19 — stood in a long, laughter-filled queue under a brilliant April sky in Natal. Promise Mthembu and Sisonke Msimang reflect on the young people who changed the face of history, and the state of the youth today.