Fallism For What
After the reawakening of South African student activism, what next? It is at the point of the rub between race, class and gender politics that the difficult questions present themselves.
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More than a building
The film 'No Place But Here' uses VR or 360 media to immerse a viewer inside a housing occupation in Cape Town. In the process, it wants to challenge gentrification and the capitalist logic of home ownership.
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.
Playing cricket while Black
Black players are consistently reduced to their racial identities by the South African media.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Dutch Disease
The media in the Netherlands have a schizophrenic relationship with South Africa, either fixating on Afrikaners, descendants of Dutch settlers, or fabricating a history of Dutch anti-apartheid zeal.
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.
Arming oppression
Africa’s largest arms trader is trying to obscure its ties with apartheid Israel, and its connections to other autocratic regimes.
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.
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.
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.
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 –
The mechanism of contagion in racism
How race came to function as fuel to an exploitative economic system. Take the case of South Africa.
Morning yet on another day of indaba
A response to Panashe Chigumadzi’s essay, “Why I’m No Longer Talking To Nigerians About Race."
David Goldblatt 1930-2018
The South African photographer has left us. He was one of the most significant artists of his time.