• Mpho Ndaba

The inadequacy of charity in tackling the legacies of apartheid and colonialism.

• Chris Webb

All that French marketing schtick aside about "the white Zulu," Johnny Clegg was a real one.

• Peter Cole

What happens when ike's, a legendary bookstore in Durban, South Africa, creates a literary festival? For one, synergy.

• Niall Reddy
• Michael Nassen Smith

One of South Africa's most important universities, the University of Cape Town, recently released a curriculum change framework in response to protests. This is a critique by two alum.

• William Shoki

Technological change is not simply a neutral and inevitable process—it is shaped and driven by existing social relations.

• Chérif Keita

A long awaited recognition comes for the two American founders of social work in South Africa.

• Ben Turok

A veteran African National Congress stalwart and member of parliament speaks to Africa Is a Country about the party, South Africa's Parliament and the dearth of left politics in South Africa.

• Sharon Ekambaram

We need to understand how climate change impacts the current and future flow of refugees and displaced persons, and ask why the protection needs of climate refugees are not being met.

• Ashwin Desai

The charge that Mohandas Gandhi was a racist is doing the rounds again. His stay in colonial South Africa fuels those claims.

• Benjamin Fogel
• Sean Jacobs

South African politics urgently needs an injection of electoral energy from the left, that speaks in a language that resonates with voters, rejects chauvinism and embraces democracy.

• Eusebius McKaiser

Are postapartheid norms against open homophobia in party politics eroding in South Africa?

• Michael J Braun

Are the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) of Julius Malema primed for the greatest gains in South Africa’s May 8th national and provincial elections?

• Sisonke Msimang

There is a lively, angry, often chaotic debate about the role and place of the father of the South African nation.

• Sean Jacobs

Today, Freedom Day in South Africa, is a good time to bring back this piece—first written in 2002—on the power of song to fuel political struggle.

• Sindi-Leigh McBride

Poor reading scores among South African children highlights the need for decolonization in book publishing, teaching and policy implementation.

• Paul Vig

Media coverage of rhino poaching in Southern Africa not only fails to address white control over conservation, but also reinforces it.

• Zayaan Jappie

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

• Ashwin Desai

If in India there has been an investment in myth of Mohandas Gandhi as a non-racial icon, in South Africa Gandhi also has his defenders.

• Anne Heffernan

The popular myth holds that most South African major resistance leaders come from its coastal regions. That's not been the case since the mid-1970s.

• William Shoki

The emphasis on identity and difference act to temper the radical potential of South Africa's youth. They need an education on class politics.