Heritage Month
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Beyond Heritage Day: African Languages Must Carry Our Rights
Heritage Month should go beyond cultural celebration to address institutional language barriers that prevent citizens from fully understanding and accessing their constitutional…
Does history oppress or liberate us?
During Heritage Month, young South Africans are questioning ancient cultural traditions, exploring whether history liberates or constrains modern society and how African…
Beyond attire: Heritage must help build the South Africa we want
Heritage Month should go beyond food and traditional attire to prompt deeper reflections on history, social cohesion, and the future South Africans want to build together.
Water, sanitation and the living heritage that binds us
As South Africa commemorates Heritage Month, AWSISA chairperson Rameteu Monyokolo explores how water and sanitation form the foundation of our living heritage, cultural identity,…
Miranda Ntshangase and Zinzi Zungu on building a creative industry that sounds like South Africa
Star Quality founders Miranda Ntshangase and Zinzi Zungu discuss the vital role of South Africa's indigenous languages in film, television, and authentic storytelling.
The Africa we build together
During Heritage Month, The Mandela Rhodes Foundation reflects on how Pan-African collaboration, shared identity, and ethical leadership can overcome division and build a unified…
In honour of South Africa’s cultural and linguistic richness this Heritage Month
The Constitution ensures the protection and promotion of every citizen’s unique heritage
Heritage Month
‘Heritage is a continuum of past, present and future’
What is the meaning of heritage on Heritage Day?
With so much attention given to heritage this month, why are South Africans generally not very interested in debates concerning what should be commemorated
Celebrating a distorted notion of unity in diversity during South Africa’s heritage month
Let us critically think about what it is that we are celebrating, especially while the younger generation is losing touch with their mother tongue.
Heritage Month leaves much to be desired
Our economy may have doubled since 1994, but this growth has not trickled down to improve the livelihoods of the majority of South Africans
Our heritage is a successful civil society
Citizen movements helped secure democracy and they still protect people’s rights in South Africa
Herstory needs to be rewritten and read
Women remain the wallpaper of history and are daily denied a voice in our patriarchal society
How our heritage is reduced to ash
Whiteness once again robs black and brown South Africans of their legacy by reducing it to ‘Braai Day’