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Omar Badsha And Dumile Feni At The Durban Art Gallery
ANTI APARTHEID MOVEMENT

Apartheid’s shadow, an artist’s light: Omar Badsha’s story

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

  • Daniel Magaziner
8 min read
Former public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan.
ACTIVISTS

Pravin Gordhan set the benchmark for public service and dedication to the cause

Not everyone liked the late former public enterprises minister, but everyone respected him

  • Ravi Pillay
3 min read
And as South Africa marks Human Rights Day, thirty years after human dignity was written into law, this is the reckoning we cannot postpone.
ALTERNATIVE INFORMATION AMP DEVELOPMENT CENTRE

Apartheid lives: Why we still use that era’s ‘racial’ categories

While race is still central, it is the battle among the rich for the wealth of South Africa that has exacerbated inequality

  • Jeff Rudin
8 min read
One of the problems facing immigrants in South Africa is to confront the reality of adapting to racialised identity categories and to find their place in the racial classification system. (John McCann/M&G)
APARTHEID

Race identity policy is irrelevant to ‘new South Africans’

Immigrants self-identify differently – and they can help their new country become truly nonracial

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
A strange encounter with a direction-seeking stranger on the Sea Point Promenade left columnist Rebecca Davis bewildered and bemused.
CAPE TOWN

From candid to can-do? The joke’s on us

Ever on guard about being seen as racist, you can’t count on white folks to roll with the punchline.

  • Rebecca Davis
5 min read
NON RACIALISM

Nonracialism and the untouchables

We need a generation of black people who refuse to be defined by the victimhood of colonialism, writes <b>Songezo Zibi</b>.

  • Songezo Zibi
7 min read
Polygamy: It ain’t what it used to be
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS YOUTH LEAGUE

ANC’s centenary birthday wish: Non-racialism

The ANC has called for the entrenchment of non-racialism and unity as it celebrates its centenary.

  • Natasha Marrian
4 min read