Character assassin
Author RW Johnson's latest aberration is a mix of fiction and lazy research that misrepresents anti-apartheid struggle leaders.
Author RW Johnson's latest aberration is a mix of fiction and lazy research that misrepresents anti-apartheid struggle leaders.
Revisionist histories of South Africa’s transition to democracy are overdue, like on the deadly march on Bisho in the Ciskei homeland on 7 September 1992.
Robert Vinson's biography of Albert Luthuli hints at how liberation histories might be reframed to better address the problems of the present.
Different factions of South Africa's ruling elite are implicated in looting and profiting from the state. South Africans should take an attitude of a plague on both their houses.
Don’t get to excited by the local election results in South Africa. The party system is fragmenting, but old apartheid divides persist.
Davis, who died at 84 on October 15th, was a prominent leader of the anti-apartheid movement in the US and an analytical thinker and visionary.
While Sisulu's political career is less celebrated than Nelson Mandela, it was as remarkable.
Albert Luthuli was ANC President when South Africa's biggest liberation movement turned to armed struggle. He's been the subject of much conjecture. What did he actually think about political violence?
President Jacob Zuma oversaw a rise in political violence across all sectors of South African society.
The Nelson Mandela encountered by former antiapartheid activist Tony Karon in American media is so unrecognizable.
How did leftist political scientist Adam Habib end up as a South African version of Thomas Friedman?
South African political party, the DA, pivots its election campaign around claiming Nelson Mandela. Who came up with this?
Revisionism pervades popular culture in South Africa now, coloring our perception of the past.
Last week, after Malema was expelled from South Africa’s ruling party, we went back and looked
Nelson Mandela has always elicited divergent, incorrect and unrealistic reactions among his detractors and supporters.
If you’re tired of the nonsense published in The New York Times or on the BBC
Political parties in South Africa have a new challenge during elections: commissioning a pop ditty people can dance to while political candidates make empty promises from stages.
The website of South Africa’s ruling party was down for a minute after hackers took it