Group Areas Act

As we commemorate freedom, a familiar chorus returns: that South Africa has too many ‘race laws’, that redress has gone too far, that equality now demands forgetting

David Goldblatt’s Fragments of Fietas captures more than loss — it reveals how memory, belonging, and faith survive even after home is erased

His fair skin did not bring him any benefits during apartheid. He was regarded as too white by black people and too black by white people

Political interference, weak capacity and patronage hinder South Africa’s post-apartheid planning, leading to dysfunctional local government

Beneficiaries crying oppression are eating at the table apartheid set for them — and complaining when someone else is finally offered a chair

These towns are not anomalies, they are barometers of how far South Africa still needs to go in confronting the unfinished business of its past.

Omar Badsha’s journey from quiet observer to defiant artist in apartheid South Africa

Summer Flowers, representing South Africa at the 15th Dakar Biennale, is an homage to author Bessie Head

One Hundred Years of Dispossession: My Family’s Quest to Reclaim Our Land traces his family’s ongoing struggle to strengthen their restitution case

Duma Nokwe is the ideal example of the calibre of leader the world is crying out for today

The country’s biggest city will continue to grow as people seek jobs and a better life. But a ‘resentment’ towards urbanisation has prevented the government from unlocking its…

Books and academic articles tell us our own stories and help others to understand them

Given its rich heritage, the area should be considered a historically important site in which black landowner rights are integral

Through a combination of architectural photographs and autobiographical stories, a new book constructs memories of this historic neighbourhood

The coronavirus pandemic dealt the District Six Museum a heavy blow, forcing it to close its doors. But the fighting spirit of its patrons has opened them again.