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Tormented: Former Security Branch operative Paul Erasmus aims to tell the truth about what happened during
the apartheid years.
(Paul Botes/M&G)

Inside the Security Branch: Torture between brandy and boerewors

A former SB operative, Paul Erasmus, talks about the torture of a young trade unionist, Neil Aggett, and the machinations at John Vorster Square

Borderless: Mo Laudi seeks to present the journey of African musics in his installations, offering an alternative to his dancefloor explorations. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Remapping African musics

Itinerant DJ and artist Mo Laudi works hard to ensure the continent’s sounds secure their rightful recognition

South Africa has one of the highest rape statistics in the world, even higher than some countries at war

Declare war on the subjugation of women

Men must foster a new humanity and women must go into combat mode

This year marks the 4th edition of Africa Month in South Africa and this year it is celebrated under the theme ‘The Year of Nelson Mandela: Building a Better Africa and a Better World’

Celebrate Africa Month this May

This year is the centenary of Nelson Mandela and Albertina Sisulu

Africa’s Travel Indaba is a major boost to the continent’s growing tourism industry

​Mandela centenary celebrated in song and dance

‘It’s madness to celebrate Mandela and omit Winnie’

Madikizela-Mandela’s death has touched all corners of South Africa where memorials have been held on an almost daily basis over the past two weeks.

The nation pays its final respects to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Madikizela-Mandela’s death has triggered a nation-wide expression of grief and a country’s deep introspection of its soul.

President Cyril Ramaphosa paid tribute to Mam’ Winnie at a memorial held at her hometown of Bizana

Mam’ Winnie was a gallant spirit: Ramaphosa

April has become a significant month for the struggle

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

Mam’ Winnie will rest in peace with her great-granddaughter

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s daughters plan to bury the struggle icon in same cemetery as great-granddaughter

Praise singers: Religious leaders are among those behind moves to register a pro-Zuma party to contest the polls.

Madikizela-Mandela dies with Qunu land ownership not fully settled

The struggle icon was never able to reclaim the land upon which the Qunu homestead of her former husband was built

Painting through struggle: Fatima Meer’s work represents the harsh realities of prison and how she

Stolen moments of prison life

The art anti-apartheid activist Fatima Meer produced in jail not only documented prison life but became a form of resistance in itself

Winnie Mandela’s death signals the end of an era

The elusive Winnie Mandela

An accurate portrait of this struggle figure, made up of our feelings about her, would be impossible to create

Zuma thanked President Cyril Ramaphosa for honouring Madikizela-Mandela with a state funeral saying it is fitting of her legacy.

Ramaphosa and Zuma joined in handshake by Mama Winnie at ANC policy conference

The ANC policy conference kicked off with an unlikely embrace between president Jacob Zuma and his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa on stage.

Former apartheid security police officer João Rodrigues, who was charged with the murder of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol in 1971, died at his home on Monday. (Anthony Schultz/M&G)
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​#CulturePop: Mourning Mandoza amid data woes, bad feminism and gifted surgeons

Unhappy endings ushered us into and out of last week. Arts columnist Kuntha Ndimande takes us through the highs and lows of popular culture this week.

Retired Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke says Life Esidimeni arbitration hearings will not conclude without the testimony of former Gauteng health MEC Qedani Mahlangu.

Still, at 80, she rises! Ramaphosa delivers stellar speech at Winnie Mandela’s bash

The full address of Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on the occasion of Winnie Madikizela Mandela’s 80th Birthday.

Winnie Mandela: Home and dislocation

A novel look at diaspora and identity

Academic JU Jacobs explores South African stories that reveal who we are and our journeys here and elsewhere, both physically and psychologically.