Playing cricket while Black
Black players are consistently reduced to their racial identities by the South African media.
500 Search Result(s) for: “apartheid”
The “Apartheid-era Robin Hood”
…is currently one of the “big three” South African football clubs and is owned by Patrice
Nelson Mandela’s environmentalism
The first African head of Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo, on how the world could best do justice to Mandela.
The Bisho March and the Leipzig Option
Revisionist histories of South Africa’s transition to democracy are overdue, like on the deadly march on Bisho in the Ciskei homeland on 7 September 1992.
Europe’s Apartheid
…to be gripped by an enormous desire for apartheid.” (We blogged about it here.) This is
File Under: Mahmood Mamdani on South Africa’s much vaunted Truth and Reconciliation Commission
…for the TRC to show white South Africans that no matter what their political views –
Ben Turok’s commitments
Turok, who died at 92, was committed to fighting for the ideals of the left in South Africa. It is worth reviewing what his contribution to these ideals were in the final chapter of his life.
No noose or barbed wire is thick enough to hide the sun
Solomon Mahlangu was a famed liberation fighter in South Africa hanged by Apartheid in 1979. His legacy is the subject of a new film.
Criminal justice for the rising middle class
A new book on policing in South Africa wants to go beyond the usual call for reform. But adapting literature tuned for reform to the task of abolition is a difficult needle to thread.
The Spear of the People
The KwaZulu-Natal Midlands has a bit of a reputation as a “sleepy hollow.” But it was a crucial node in the struggle against apartheid.
Captain Kolisi
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.
Why the rhino is Newsmaker of the Year in South Africa
The divorce between social reality of post-apartheid South African and White South Africa.
The ‘Born Free Generation’
…the interview includes this illuminating passage about the Catch 22 for young black people after Apartheid,
Abnormal Sport
In South Africa activists and sports people campaigning to isolate apartheid, declared: “No normal sport in an abnormal society.” That idea has rattled Israeli diplomats.
And do not hinder them
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.
Not in My Name
What's it like seeing your work on display, only to realize it's been taken over and remade by someone else to give a totally different meaning.
Understanding South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel
South Africa is asking the International Court of Justice to declare that in its war against Gaza, Israel has breached its obligations under the Genocide Convention.
Morning yet on another day of indaba
A response to Panashe Chigumadzi’s essay, “Why I’m No Longer Talking To Nigerians About Race."
The mechanism of contagion in racism
How race came to function as fuel to an exploitative economic system. Take the case of South Africa.
David Goldblatt 1930-2018
The South African photographer has left us. He was one of the most significant artists of his time.