• Sean Henry Jacobs

The musician Mac McKenzie, who passed away in April 2024, helped pioneer a sound that captured the Mother City’s Creole heritage.

• Desmond Painter

The future of Stellenbosch University does not depend on whether white people there can transcend individual stereotypes and prejudice. It depends on whether they can articulate anti-racism as a genuine political position.

• Tom Slater

The University of Edinburgh will award an honorary doctorate to Joe Schaffers, a working-class educator from Cape Town, South Africa. It will be a new benchmark for this tradition.

• Youlendree Appasamy

Xenophobia and questions of belonging haunt Indian South Africans. What does that mean for solidarity with Black South Africans?

• Lindsay Johns

Dennis Brutus described Arthur Nortje as “perhaps the best South African poet of our time.”

• Zayaan Jappie

Rapper YoungstaCPT's headspace is shaped by Cape Town’s history.

• Alice de Vries

This is the second in a 3 part series of posts on sexual violence against women, focuses on the campaign strategies of groups led by men who fight gender-based violence.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

We don’t know why the South African photographer decided to apply to become "coloured" under Apartheid's racial classification laws.

• Dylan Valley

Youngsta built a reputation on doing “straight up Cape Town hip hop,” but his recent output suggests he is now appealing to mainstream audiences.

• Sean Henry Jacobs