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Revolution: Three decades into democracy, South Africa remains trapped between constitutional freedom and the unresolved realities of land dispossession, inequality and economic exclusion.  Photo: JMK

It is time for the Second Republic

Our private and political lives are always punctuated by upheavals and storms. These moments signal the direction we should take. The unfolding political and economic crisis in…

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Editorial: DA’s divisive posters were a calculated decision — which has backfired

It would be refreshing if South Africans encountered political parties that actually walked the talk of embracing the ideals of nonracialism

Helen Zille and the DA have distanced themselves from those seeking independence, yet have chosen to legitimise those movements by incorporating them in a working group.

Zille’s recent rant reflects the DA’s 180 degree turn on race

The fight against racial classification during apartheid is not the same as race-based redress required now

Black Thoughts: Writer and activist Achmat Dangor never shied from his personal odyssey of exploring uncertain terrain. (Paul Botes)

Achmat Dangor: On writing and change

Celebrated author and political activist Achmat Dangor died on Sunday at the age of 71. Here, in a 1990 interview published in Staffrider, he speaks to Andries Walter Oliphant…

How black and white conspire against SA’s nationhood

A new book paints Africans as lacking agency in a post-apartheid vortex of structural racism.

Race reinvented for post-apartheid SA

Two decades since 1994, we’re still stuck in the racial categories of the old regime – a colour-coding of class from which only the rich benefit.

Religion has always played a big role in the United States polls.

The role of spirituality in Western politics

Church and state may be separated in South Africa, but people’s belief systems flow subtly through all our public discourses.