Apartheid Struggle
latest news & developmentsHere's to the women who refuse to stop writing
As struggle veteran Sibongile Mkhabela marks her 70th birthday, the '76 INKED! literary festival gathers generations of South African women writers, including Zukiswa Wanner,…
Exile in Cairo: Between the Nile and the struggle
Morley Nkosi recalls exile in Cairo, where cramped rooms, African solidarity and global politics shaped the uncertain journey to freedom
Ramaphosa urged to establish judicial inquiry into lack of apartheid prosecutions
Imtiaz Cajee, the nephew of murdered anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol, will recommend an inquiry to probe the capture of the NPA and SAPS
Surviving the violence of a police state
In the 1970s and 1980s, activists were subjected to arson attacks and assassination attempts. Fatima Meer describes her experience
African youth are bystanders in their own economies
The post-1994 dispensation has failed to give young Africans a sense of passion and hope for the future.
Struggle veteran Amina Cachalia has passed away
‘Cachalia deserves a special place in our history for her humility and commitment over many decades to the cause of freedom,’ says the presidency
‘Patriot of special quality’ Nthato Motlana dies in Johannesburg
Anti-apartheid activist, businessman and Mandela family physician Nthato Motlana has died at his Johannesburg home after a long battle with cancer.
Master of information
Bheki Jacobs, who died last week at the age of 46, was one of the most remarkable figures to come out of the liberation struggle.
A heritage that shames us
The idealism of SA’s anti-apartheid struggle is in danger of dissolving in the acid of pragmatism, warns public intellectual Darshan Vigneswaran.
The centenary of a bonfire
The seeds of a non-racial struggle and the adoption of a policy of non-discrimination were sown by Gandhi’s approach.
Raising the Bar
Former DA leader Tony Leon says the crisis in the judiciary has been more than a decade in the making.
Keeping it reel
The story of the late Onkgopotse Tiro is told in a brooding documentary by Steve Mokwena called <i>A Blues for Tiro</i>.