Reparations

A poetic, genre-blurring film, Variations on a Theme excavates ancestral grief, memory and forgotten histories in a Northern Cape community still waiting for justice

The Mining Affected Communities United in Action says the mining giant must ‘take full responsibility for unpaid debts and abandoned communities’

More than 600 faith leaders across the continent say the Gates Foundation’s Green Revolution model has deepened poverty, degraded soils and undermined food sovereignty

Reparations are not only for slavery and colonialism, it’s also for the Global North’s environmental legacy and their disproportionate carbon emissions that harm Africa

This excerpt is from the recently published book, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism and Reparations (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2024)

Developing nations are calling for the countries most responsible for climate change to pay for loss and damage

British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare offers us a mongrelised vision for the future with his new hybrid forms

President Cyril Ramaphosa has been urged to release grants for apartheid victims, as recommended by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Ramaphosa addressed the massacre of 34 workers at the Lonmin Platinum mine in 2012 for the first time since being elected president in Parliament

Filmmaker Vincent Moloi hopes to raise the profile of reparation with ‘Skulls of My People’.

Namibians have brought a renewed lawsuit in the United States against Germany’s extermination policy.

The 8th Pan-African Congress has called for reparations regarding the extensive and continuing damage colonialism has done, writes Bennie Bunsee.

In 2013 a fund for the victims of apartheid will have more cash than it did when it was created as it continues to accumulate interest.