Memoir is a gripping account of journalistic bravery, father-son reckonings and resilience
South Africa has lost a moral giant as the playwright who challenged injustice through art dies at 92
Omar Badsha’s journey from quiet observer to defiant artist in apartheid South Africa
This is an edited extract from the new novel by Jeremy Vearey, Crimson Sands
The writer grew and evolved in exile — but he never truly left South Africa
He leaves a legacy as a champion of labour rights, fiscal and monetary reform and prudent government spending
This is an edited extract from Patric Tariq Mellet’s The Truth About Cape Slavery
Like all of us, Lucas Mangope’s life trajectory had many exciting twists and turns. His illustrates a journey from the outskirts of a traditional village — Motsweding, in North West — to political stardom as the president of the Bophuthatswana homeland from 1977 to 1994. In Lucas Mangope: A Life, Oupa Segalwe demonstrates elusive qualities […]
In post-apartheid South Africa, the system has evolved but has fundamentally stayed the same, triggering an inter-generational cycle of displacement
Food is about so much more than mere physical sustenance, it is chock-full of feelings too
We need to find new and better ways to talk about our society
Linda used his pen and camera to expose the unspeakable crimes of the apartheid regime and continued to fight for equality after democracy
If we are to make sense of the present and plan for the future we must understand our past, and so we must preserve our records
The reader navigates themes such as migration, black masculinity, displacement, aspirations, racial identity and sexuality before wokeness
The stories of children of apartheid activists are similar but Lindiwe Hani’s prose about a meeting with her father’s killers comes into its own.
The judges are divided over a clean break from the apartheid past and cultural rights.
A good-guys, bad-guys account of the Anglo-Boer War is tedious, but a Dutch revisiting is riveting.
Struggle veteran and author Phyllis Naidoo has died, says the ANC.
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/ 11 December 2008
Documentary filmmaker Jihan El-Tahri’s work explores
the foibles of power, writes Percy Zvomuya.
Let’s face it, since 1994 many leading black figures in the middle, professional and upper classes have played the ”race card”.
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/ 21 February 2008
Adriaan Basson reviews Hermann Giliomee and Bernard Mbenga’s <i>New History of South Africa</i>.