The Art of Peter Clarke
Peter Clarke (84), who passed away on April 13, 2014, was an elder statesman of South Africa's arts community.
South Africa
News of an Engagement
Why you've got to love the way the South African tabloid newspaper Daily Sun reported Caster Semenya's marriage to her girlfriend
Good neighbors in Johannesburg
This practice in some media of making white people who live in mostly black inner city Johannesburg, out as special. No.
The music that changed my life
The Cape Town suburb of Observatory is known for being a small bohemian enclave, providing low
The new kid on the block
Admit you didn't expect the Economic Freedom Fighters or EFF, a breakaway from the ANC, to do so well in South Africa's latest elections.
Elections and captured politics
Twenty years after 1994, there is the deep discontent among the population about electoral politics and of politics in general. Freedom turned out to be a mirage.
Seven Things To Tell Young Black South Africans
Being Black in South Africa today must be a baffling, sometimes humiliating experience.
This is Freedom
The AIDS activist Zackie Achmat reflects on South Africa’s 5th democratic elections in this interview with Cape Town independent media outlet, GroundUp.
Why is there a Colombian film festival in South Africa
A group of Colombian artists who live in South Africa on "the incredible amount of similarities between Colombia and South Africa"
Meleko Mokgosi’s monumental installations
The paintings in Meleko Mokgosi's ongoing "Pax Kaffraria" series interrogate colonialism, politics, power, and identity in Botswana and Southern Africa
The post-1994 power brokers and black liberation
Where does this leave the majority of largely poor, black and unskilled people affected by the competing interests of powerful groups?
Belonging—Why South Africans Refuse to let Africa in
Most South Africans have at least one thing in common: their hatred of other Africans coming from the rest of the continent.
The Slave Ship Theme
The Cape Town company that designs and markets "slave ship" ironing boards and aprons.
Where were you when Chris Hani was killed?
Chris Hani, a prominent ANC and Communist Party leader, was murdered on April 10, 1993, by white racists. The writer remembers hearing the news.
Weekend in Stellenbosch
The writer went for a visit and found Stellenbosch, a Western Cape town that is home to one of South Africa's universities, strange, interesting and also very sad.
#WhiteHistoryMonth: Thank God, you were born white
On one of the last days of AIAC’s first #WhiteHistoryMonth, I found myself getting increasingly annoyed
What they don’t tell you about Stellenbosch
The brochures about the town left out the reality for Stellenbosch's black residents: poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
#WhiteHistoryMonth: How Unexpected
From this week’s Washington Post Travel Section–“How unexpected: There was more modernity than I expected, such
History in the active voice
Research and investigative journalism have begun to identify the agents of Apartheid South Africa's violent history.
Who decides what is African?
The photographer Zanele Muholi equally mourns and celebrates South African queer lives.