Winnie Mandela

Explore 'The Trials of Winnie Mandela', a Netflix documentary that offers an authentic, nuanced portrayal of one of South Africa's most fascinating and contested figures.…

The executive producer of "The Trials of Winnie Mandela" reflects on the documentary series, arguing that history is existential and that the film aims to challenge comfortable,…

Barbie Kyagulanyi’s ordeal reveals how love can become a powerful, non-violent force driving resistance, courage and conviction in Uganda’s struggle for meaningful democracy and…

Political cartoonist Carlos Amato reflects on satire, sensitivity and why South Africa remains one of the last frontiers of free cartooning

A powerful reflection on women who wait – out of devotion, duty and often unrewarded hope

Bringing together the traditional and the modern, Thandiswa Mazwai is taking her new album Sankofa to the world

An edited excerpt from Jonny Steinberg’s ‘Winnie & Nelson : Portrait of a Marriage’ where their daughter Zindzi visits the jail

The literary event aims to ‘inspire, delight, inform and challenge’ those who attend

‘Soweto Tea Party’ is a children’s book that tells the story of Dr Nokuthula Mazibuko Msimang’s childhood, growing up with a father under house arrest

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.

But what of the women who were employed to guard the detained activists during this time of struggle?

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s death illustrates how society defines and judges women — by their biological function

Patriarchal systems have asserted for centuries that women can only own land through their men

​The former Safety and Security Minister has denied that he had reopened a criminal investigation into the late Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

It was a final, fitting, recognition of the Mother of a Nation, who was also one of its sharpest spears.