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Fleeing: Media is urged to stop calling white South Africans who relocated to United States ‘refugees’.

SA’s moral, technical high ground upends unipolar narrative

The “white genocide” narrative works inside this wider machinery. It racialises South Africa’s internal contradictions for foreign consumption. It turns a country struggling with…

The Dutch arrived in the Cape to set up a refreshment station. Photo: File

From one disaster to another; from Jan van Riebeeck to Steve Hofmeyr

The best way to get South Africans to do something is to tell them not to do it, which may be good news for football

Dav Andrew is a Cape Town-based illustrator and designer known for his Afrofuturist drawings. He was inspired to draw Ouma Griet Seekoei after her death in May, noting that she was “a language activist, fighting for government to recognize her endangered language and help it survive”

Saving southern Africa’s oldest languages

The decline of N|uu dates all the way back to 1652, when the first Europeans arrived by ship at the Cape of Good Hope.

Pressure to remove colonial relics grows

This week, the Black People’s National Crisis Committee (BPNCC) said it would intensify protest if activists are not listened to.

Busisiwe Mkhwebane is the new public protector; we should be cheering

Letters to the editor: September 16 to 22 2016

Readers write in about powerful women, water retention, and Krotoa.

AfriForum: Zuma is using Afrikaners as scapegoats

AfriForum says President Jacob Zuma’s undertaking that the ANC would continue to defend minorities were empty words.

Baleka Mbete called on ANC branches to prepare themselves to fight the EFF in provincial legislatures and municipalities.

SAHRC receives complaints about Zuma, Mbete comments

The Human Rights Commission is assessing complaints about Jacob Zuma’s Jan van Riebeeck and Baleka Mbete’s "cockroach" comments made at ANC events.