• Shelley Pryde

In echoing the anti-trans panic sweeping the Global North, South African political heavyweight Helen Zille joins a reactionary tradition of racialized sex policing.

• Zaheer Ally

As far-right politics gain traction across the globe, some South Africans are embracing Trumpism not out of policy conviction but out of a deeper, more troubling identification.

• Olerato K. Mogomotsi

Afrophobia in South Africa is no longer shouted — it is rationalized, rebranded, and wrapped in the language of law and patriotism.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The formerly exiled ANC activist and later judge Albie Sachs is archiving his life, including a new film that forms part of a larger project of legacy-making.

• Kristen L. Miller

In Johannesburg, a new generation of Black cyclists is redefining joy, movement, and solidarity — taking over the streets to ride, to reclaim space, and to reimagine freedom.

• Noland Oswald Dennis

In this wide-ranging conversation, para-disciplinary artist Nolan Oswald Dennis reflects on space, time, Blackness, and the limits of Western knowledge — offering a strategy for imagining grounded in African and anti-colonial traditions.

• Philile Ntuli

In the aftermath of the Stilfontein mining tragedy, South Africa must confront not just policy failure but a deeper amnesia: the erasure of women, memory, and indigenous ethics from its extractive economy.

• Oliver Layman

Cape Town’s digital nomads chase cheap luxury and scenic backdrops — but behind the matcha lattes and “social impact days” lies a deeper story of economic power, displacement, and global inequality.

• Ali Ridha Khan

Three decades after apartheid, South Africans are still waiting for housing, land, and dignity — while elites ask for patience that serves only themselves.

• Hein Marais

A new book issues both an indictment of South Africa’s failed transition and a call to rebuild the left through climate justice, solidarity economies, and radical humanism.

• Albie Sachs

In this wide-ranging conversation, the freedom fighter and former Constitutional Court justice Albie Sachs reflects on law, liberation, and the unfinished work of building a just South Africa.

• Thembi Ngubo

From kwaito to amapiano, South African music is a bridge between past and present, where cultural memory, resistance, and reinvention collide on the dancefloor.

• Josef K.

The South African government’s rush to clear visa applications has led to mass rejections, bureaucratic chaos, and an overloaded appeals system — leaving thousands in limbo.

• Tara Nair van Ryneveld
• Malik Chiconela Santana

The massacre of artisanal miners in Stilfontein exposes the South African state’s violent allegiance to corporate interests and a long legacy of extraction and dispossession.

• William Shoki

Musk’s outrage over land reform in South Africa isn’t about fairness — it’s about fueling right-wing paranoia and preserving economic privilege.

• Herman Wasserman

The US president’s executive order on South Africa isn’t about fairness — it’s a cynical ploy to stoke racial paranoia and shore up his right-wing base.

• Andile Zulu

As economic crises deepen, right-wing fearmongering and racial scapegoating thrive — masking the real struggle for economic justice.

• Steven Friedman

Musk’s embrace of far-right politics and Zionism reveals the fractures in Western liberal democracy, where whiteness trumps equality and justice.

• Samuel Anim

The former president’s abiding presence in South African politics reveals the undercurrent of cultural populism and what can happen when local beliefs cut against the grain of liberal democracy.

• Jan Bornman

In South Africa, a spate of food poisoning incidents has ignited another round of xenophobic scaremongering.