• 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

Rugby in South Africa is generally understood to be a white sport, but contemporary statistics reveal that a great many more black people than white people play rugby there.

• 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.

• Peter Cole

Former US Congressman and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, who passed away recently, played a leading role in the global fight against South African Apartheid in the 1980s.

• Christopher J. Lee

In 1978, exiled South African writer and leftist Alex La Guma traveled to the Soviet Union and wrote a book about it. A new, critical annotated edition is out now.

• Ben Verghese

Free Jazz drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo comes home to Langa township in Cape Town, carrying the spirit of his generation.

• Steven Friedman

One of the weirder displays of Pan-Africanism descended on Johannesburg’s Soccer City on the evening of July 2, 2010.

• John Edwin Mason

The South African photographer has left us. He was one of the most significant artists of his time.

• Rafael Cazarin

Nearly nine in 10 people in sub-Saharan Africa declare religion as a very important to them. To tackle sexual and gender violence would involve engaging with that fact.

• Suren Pillay

Where do these debates about the place of coloureds and Indians in South Africa come from?

• Camalita Naicker

How do you tell a different story of Indians in South Africa, one that shatters long-held and reproduced stereotypes?

• Ashwin Desai

A remembrance for Father's Day.

• Stephen Coplan

South Africa's national rugby team, the Springboks, gets a black captain for the first time in its history--24 years after the end of Apartheid.

• Michael Bueckert

South Africa's lead anti-land reform organization is cultivating its relationship with the international far right.

• Vanessa Burger

President Jacob Zuma oversaw a rise in political violence across all sectors of South African society.

• Ashwin Desai

On Mother's Day — a dedication to hardscrabble mothers.

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Herman Wasserman

Reporting on protests in poor communities where the mainstream media lacks, social media picks up the slack. This isn't always a good thing.

• Naledi Yaziyo

I had told many half-truths before, but those little lies were cute compared to this, the first time I told a big lie.

• Sisonke Msimang

The Jacob Zuma years were especially damaging for re-introducing South Africans to political leaders who did not fear shame.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Engaging seriously with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s life could help us understand how South Africa got where it is and where it’s going.