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Although these elections have a sense of anxiety and tension to them, it is an indication of the country’s evolving democracy and society’s changing priorities over time. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP)

Combat destructive nihilism to build an egalitarian South African society

To overcome negativity, and draw citizens back into politics, we need to recapture the viability of class struggle which can usher in real change

Reading bell hooks: A selection of readings that highlight her intellectual labour

Mapule Mohulatsi selects a few essential titles from her oeuvre, interviews and publications about her

Epitome of ethics: Author and cultural critic bell hooks insisted that care, love and spirituality were the core of black feminist practice and freedom. Photo: Karjean Levine/Getty Images

A spirit guide to ethical black feminist thinking and praxis

bell hooks’s refusal to ‘get in formation’ foregrounded healing as the foundation to a communal liberatory agenda

Culture of struggle: Diturupa troupes in Makapanstad celebrate the role of black soldiers in the first and second world wars. (Photos: Lucas Styles Ledwaba)

Review: ‘Culture and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa’: On the arts as a catalyst in the quest for true freedom

This new collection of essays, tributes and analyses focuses on the role of culture in the fostering of radical consciousness

This time seems different: A Black Lives Matter mural on a street in Brooklyn, New York, during protests against racism after the killing of George Floyd. (Photo: AFP)

Beware of Big Business bearing gifts

Large corporates whose business has thrived because of inequalities, could be hijacking the anti-racist movement by offering money and not tangible changes

Bishop Rubin Phillip, theologian, anti-apartheid activist and a close friend of Steve Biko. (Photograph by Mlungisi Mbele/New Frame)

Bishop Emeritus Rubin Phillip: The guerilla priest

From his adventures with Steve Biko to his support for shack dwellers in KwaZulu-Natal, Bishop Emeritus Rubin Phillip has always walked the talk of radical Christianity

The intellectual challenge of Nelson Mandela

I don’t want to see folks satisfied when they talk about Nelson Mandela. He constitutes such a challenge to us — an intellectual challenge..