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Too many questions, just enough truth: Justice as a lifelong pursuit
The thread that held the conversation together was clear from the beginning: justice. Not the abstract kind confined to courtrooms and legal textbooks but justice as a lived…
Africa’s voice and power must be underpinned by dignity
For many African public intellectuals such as Steve Biko, Leopold Senghor, Kenneth Kaunda, Julius Nyerere and Kwame Nkrumah, political independence represented more than the…
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…
We need to rebuild the idea of the public
South Africa is in crisis and the intra-elite battles about how to move forward do not offer any viable path towards a just way resolution
The legal sector code is a tool for substantive equality in SA’s legal profession
Many in the legal profession today continue to benefit from systems of exclusion they did not create, but from which they continue to draw advantage
‘Kill the Boer’ is a betrayal of SA’s democratic promise
To speak against Julius Malema’s use of the chant is not to stand with racists but with the Constitution
Thandiswa Mazwai’s technologies of resistance
Bringing together the traditional and the modern, Thandiswa Mazwai is taking her new album Sankofa to the world
New book reignites Rick Turner’s radical democratic ideas and legacy
A new publication sustains the discussion of the ideas of a creative and courageous radical for a new generation
The sonic soul of Steve Biko
Musicians have carried his ideology forward – but what would he make of today’s politics?
Scribes of freedom: Southern African literature works for a just society
From critiques of apartheid to reflections on post-colonial identity, Southern African literature has chronicled the region’s history and shaped its trajectory to a just society
ANC’s 30th anniversary: Learning from National Party’s lessons
Thirty years into its rule, the NP faced the reality of its demise. The ANC faces a similar reality This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get Your Free…
Rethinking Steve Biko’s black consciousness political philosophy post-liberation
Leveraging colour as a means of progress can have a paradoxical effect of self-incarceration
Why Steve Biko still matters
The founder of Black Consciousness kept evolving; by the time of his terrible death he was moving away from hard-line racial isolationism. DREW FORREST traces his development in…
Lindiwe Hani: ‘Realising dreams is a gift to my father’
Chris Hani’s daughter Lindiwe Hani has learnt to not be buried by his assassination 30 years ago but to draw strength from the way he lived his life
How Cabral, Fanon and Freire shaped the struggle against apartheid South Africa — and still inspire
Amílcar Cabral was assassinated 50 years ago today. His thought, which sometimes arrived in South Africa via a circuitous route, speaks to our current crisis with undiminished…