• Christopher J. Lee

COVID-19 isn’t simply a medical or epidemiological crisis; it is a crisis of sovereignty.

• Elisha Kunene

COVID-19 presents an unprecedented threat, but a campaign by South Africa's security forces attempting to grind defenseless people into dust does not guarantee success.

• Doug Bafford

Public anxiety grows over “prosperity preachers” who have dominated the religious landscape in South Africa and across the continent.

• Sisonke Msimang

We know what will happen with this new virus, and so I cannot blissfully self-isolate.

• William Shoki

The coronavirus pandemic places moral, economic, and political questions before us. Only two answers remain: socialism or barbarism.

• Jill E. Kelly

The historian of South Africa on books she is reading for a new project on women and anti-apartheid activities in 1950s rural KwaZulu-Natal.

• Derek Charles Catsam

What the recent World Rugby Sevens Series global championship reveals about national rugby cultures, particularly South Africa's.

• Danny Hoffman

The quest to understand the real cost of gold in our lives and the fate of those trapped in the mining economy’s cage.

• Valmont Layne

Breaking with the usual media conversation about the carnival that recalls Cape Town’s slave past.

• Zama Mthunzi

With 7.9 million young South Africans out of work or with very little education or training opportunities, who looks out for their aspirations?

• Jesse Harber

One major historical function of the police in South Africa remains: to manage the poor.

• Herman Wasserman
• Sean Jacobs

How Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters drive political conversations in South Africa.

• Loren B Landau
• Roni Amit

Recent restrictions on refugees—and the limited protests against them—reflect the degree to which many South Africans see “xenophobia” as legitimate hate.

• William Shoki

In South Africa, the political class use foreign nationals as scapegoats to obfuscate their role in reproducing inequality. But immigrants are part of the excluded.

• Paul T. Clarke

What might the fascination in displaying and seeing the body of “the criminal” tell us about South Africa today?

• Carilee Osborne

COSATU, South Africa's largest trade union federation, has a plan to simultaneously tackle climate change and unemployment.

• Athambile Masola

Remembering Adelaide Tantsi Dube’s poem 'Africa: My Native Land,' first published in 1913, the same year the white government stripped black South Africans of their land.

• Serubiri Moses

Homage to Santu Mofokeng, photographer of quotidian black life in South Africa.

• Michael Bueckert

Nearly four decades later, Linda Ronstadt’s arguments against the cultural boycott - repeated in a new film - ring hollow.

• Tsogo Kupa

For this group, politics is often framed as a series of never-ending discussions about social justice: The experience from South Africa.