• Ross Truscott

Media studies scholar Sharon Sliwinski asks whether dreaming can be recast as a vital form of resistance to political violence. A review of her book.

• Michael Nassen Smith

Any deviation from economic orthodoxy in South Africa is made coterminous with the most extreme cases, like Zimbabwe and Venezuela.

• Savo Heleta

The UN and South Africa's Statistics Service are exaggerating immigrant numbers and playing with people's lives in South Africa.

• Sindi-Leigh McBride

In a world of fake news, shallow analysis and torrid pontificating, combining empirical evidence with emotive expression, is what give Roy's essays legs.

• Chris Webb

Many will read Sisonke Msimang's new memoir for its musings on exile and home, but it is also a political telling of the complicated South African transition.

• Jeanne Boyat

When black students at an elite school in South Africa's capital protested over how teachers treated them over their hair, everyone noticed. It's not the same in township schools.

• Nicholas Grant

Why did the CIA want to silence Mandela? And what does this tell us about his political legacy?

• Russell Grinker

How can Cosatu remain relevant in the face of declining membership and a failing formal economy?

• Scott Remer

Obama's speech in South Africa, marking the late Mandela's 100th birthday, is more liberal white washing of radical social movements of the past.

• Meghan Healy-Clancy
• Jill E. Kelly

Given her status in 20th century South African history, historians have surprisingly said little about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, before or since her April 2018 passing.

• Michael Bueckert

South Africa's white nationalists are finally in the spotlight, thanks to Donald Trump. Nobody likes what they see.

• Christopher J. Lee

Trump's tweet repeating white nationalist propaganda about land reform in South Africa shows that white supremacy has consistently relied on an international receptivity and interdependence.

• Savo Heleta

All political parties in South Africa try to mobilize voters based on their and voters' xenophobia and they're outdoing each other with an election scheduled for 2019.

• Herman Wasserman

The pain caused by the South African Apartheid government has been widely recorded. But we may not have heard the half of it.

• Sisonke Msimang

The relationship of South African former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela with her daughter is a perfect metaphor for the state of of the country's politics.

• William Worger

Lily Saint talks with historian William Worger about the archive of sponsored comics by South Africa's Apartheid government that he is amassing at UCLA.

• Dan Magaziner
• Sean Jacobs

The Marikana mine killings in August 2012 showed that South Africa's problems are no longer specific to the apartheid legacy, but about more global issues of poverty and inequality.

• Dan Moshenberg

In a new film, five young Zulu women set off on a trek in Africa’s oldest nature reserve, as the latter is threatened by coal mines and rhino poachers.

• Simon Taylor

It is unusual that rugby in South Africa is understood to be a white sport, as contemporary statistics reveal that a great many more black people than white people play rugby in the county.

• Ashwin Desai

When former Springbok Ashwin Willemse walked off a SuperSport TV set, he forced conversations on racism in South African rugby and its sports media.