• Khanya Mtshali

A docuseries about the Springbok rugby team invites us to examine the enduring legacy of Rainbowism in South Africa.

• Atiyyah Khan

Jazz bassist Benjamin Jeptha’s latest project interrogates the meaning of Creole identity in South Africa, thirty years after the end of white-minority rule.

• Sean Jacobs

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

• Adam Aboobaker

Some progressive economists argue that a bigger budget deficit is the solution to the country’s socio-economic woes. But it isn’t that straightforward.

• Niall Reddy

After losing its parliamentary majority for the first time, the African National Congress is scrambling to form a coalition government. The options are bleak.

• Brant Roberts

In 1985, black students at the University of Houston led a campaign for divestment from apartheid South Africa.

• William Shoki

The Just Us Under A Tree podcast returns to analyze all the legal drama building up to South Africa’s general election.

• Khanya Mtshali

In 'Revolutionaries’ House,' Nthikeng Mohlele explores the moral decay within South African politics through a disaffected politician tortured by his personal indiscretions.

• Palesa Nqambaza

What an amapiano song tells us about post-apartheid South Africa.

• Thandi Gamedze

Christian theology was appropriated to play an integral role in the justifying apartheid’s racist ideology. Black theologians resisted through a theology of the oppressed.

• Sazi Bongwe

South Africa, thirty-years after 1994.

• Jan Bornman

Right-wing populists in South Africa have started copying their American counterparts by calling for a border wall.

• Emma Daitz

South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Robert Sobukwe is often understood as a black nationalist. So what should we make of his close friendship with a white liberal?

• Srila Roy
• Joel Quirk

The failure of South African universities to call out Israel’s genocide challenges the assumption that South Africans have a deep appreciation of injustice in Palestine given their similar experiences under apartheid.

• Ron Krabill
• Herman Wasserman

When the the Palestinian Men’s National Team played an exhibition match in Cape Town, South Africa, it might as well have been a home game.

• Mishca Peters

We hardly think of children as agents of change. At the height of 1980s apartheid repression in South Africa, a group of activists did and gave them the tool of print.

• Michael Burawoy

The life of Edward Webster, one of South Africa’s most distinguished sociologists, can be compared to a windmill—taking in the winds of change and turning them into a prodigious intellectual engagement.

• Khanya Mtshali

Are Nelson Mandela's personal belongings sellable family heirlooms or heritage artifacts of national significance?

• Wits Palestine Solidarity Committee

South Africa’s Wits University likes to vaunt its anti-apartheid credentials. So why is it cozy with Israel and Zionism?

• Bonginkosi Ndadane

If South Africa’s Premier Soccer league matters, it is because it’s the country’s most successful pan-Africanist project.