Nelson Mandela’s Humanity was a Political Education
The author, remembering Mandela, writes how South Africa galvanized progressive energies in the US in the 1980s.
Joe Slovo
Struggles over memory in South Africa
Revisionism pervades popular culture in South Africa now, coloring our perception of the past.
Apartheid is a museum no one visits
How much do young South Africans, especially college students, know about their history? Not much, if these videos are any indication.
Joe Slovo was one of my heroes
Joe Slovo was a key leader of the armed and exiled resistance against Apartheid. He was also the most visible white face of that movement.