Mandela

Reckoning with South Africa’s white supremacist threat

Karin Mitchell’s The High Treason Club reconstructs South Africa’s Boeremag trial, revealing extremist plots, ideological fervour and the fragility of democracy

Marlan Padayachee

5 min read

Brazen theft: When a political formation that played no role in the armed struggle adopts the MK name and symbols, it is more than confusion, argues the writer. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS AIC

29 DEC 2025

The ANC’s heritage under siege

Others go as far as attempting to steal the very names and symbols that belong to the ANC and its fallen heroes

Cornelius Monama

9 min read

Blazing A Trail by Lincoln Mali (supplied)

ACTIVIST

5 FEB 2023

Writer tells a lot, shows little

Activist-turned-banker Lincoln Mali’s memoir Blazing a Trail is well intentioned but sadly it misses the mark in many ways

Rithuli Orleyn

7 min read

A picture of Clare Stewart and her son Themba. (Samantha Reinders/New Frame)

ACTIVIST

1 AUG 2022

Clare: The terror of the mundane

Christopher Clark’s debut book, Clare: The killing of a gentle activist’ explores the context of the murder of an activist in KwaZulu-Natal

Rithuli Orleyn

7 min read

Nelson Mandela’s boxing belt has been stolen from a museum in Soweto.

CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING BELT SOLEN

14 JUL 2022

Nelson Mandela’s boxing belt stolen from Soweto museum

Mandela was given the belt by American legend Sugar Ray Leonard after he was released from Robben Island

Bongeka Gumede

2 min read