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“White Privilege, Black Pain: The Power of Race in Democratic South Africa” by Kim Heller – published by @xarrabooks
ALSATIAN

Andile Mngxitama’s inconsistency and the politics of denigration and opportunism

I remain close to the places where ordinary black life meets the police, the farmer, the mine and the state face to face. That ground has no patience for fashionable radicalism.…

  • Sipho Singiswa
8 min read
A sea of blue memorial peace race participants were ferried by dozens of boats to take part in the third annual 10km run and walk hosted by the Robben Island Museum Council. Photo: Marlan Padayachee
AUBREY MOKOAPE

Bittersweet return to Robben Island

For decades, the island was a towering emblem of punishment—first for enslaved labourers and lepers under colonial rule and later for the anti-apartheid resisters who dared to…

  • Marlan Padayachee
6 min read
A police source working on gang-related activities in Hanover Park and Manenberg told the M&G: “The young ones don’t accept [gang] regulations and jump camp very easily.” (David Harrison)
AMERICANS

Cape Flats: Gang leadership crumbles as members fight their own

It is about power, drugs and money for young gangsters who snub ‘traditional’ loyalist rules

  • Eunice Masson
4 min read
Eight-year-old Tazne Van Wyk who was found dead in a drainpipe outside the town of Worcester. (Jaco Marais)
FEROZA BOWERS

Tazné van Wyk murder trial: Accused ‘severely’ assaulted on way to court

It is unclear whether the murder accused will lay charges against two inmates after being beaten up in the vehicle transporting them to court

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read