44 Years of Walking Past Cecil John Rhodes’ Statue
The Life and Times of Mr Peter Buckton, a worker at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
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Struggles over memory in South Africa
Revisionism pervades popular culture in South Africa now, coloring our perception of the past.
Apartheid is a museum no one visits
How much do young South Africans, especially college students, know about their history? Not much, if these videos are any indication.
Post-apartheid symptoms of morbidity
Ordinary working-class people have been forced to the belief that there can never actually be real solutions; stripped of the confidence that fundamental change can happen.
Hendrik Verwoerd in Jerusalem
The "two state solution" for Israel and Palestine will be the culmination of the same political vision that motivated apartheid South Africa.
The creation of black criminality in South Africa
There is a seamless transition in how the South African state in tandem with capital, for 400 years utilize prisons to control black bodies.
The revolution will be photographed
Peter Magubane was one of South Africa’s foremost resistance photojournalists, exposing the world to the cruel spectacle of the apartheid regime.
More than just a flag
South Africa’s apartheid flag has been declared hate speech by a top court. But while courts are important and their judgments matter, racism is a long and internationally entrenched social phenomenon that cannot be undone via judicial processes.
The short, white woman with a South African accent
Urdang reflects her long friendship with fellow political exile Jennifer Davis, the anti-apartheid activist and changemaker.
The Politics of Postapartheid Housing
Rather than the endpoint of the post-apartheid urban crisis, deficient delivery reproduces it anew, accentuating discontent in the process.
The exilic geographies of the South
Dugmore Boetie was part of a wave of South African writers who fled Apartheid. His exile and future literary notoriety, however, took a different path to some of the more classic refugee peregrinations.
What’s a national anthem got to do with anything?
Next time 'Die Stem' part of the South African anthem plays, the appropriate reaction is to sit down or take a knee.
With what are you apologizing?
If slavery is the material and metaphysical womb of the modern world, reparations will require nothing less than the end of this world.
“Converting Eviction”
A reflection—by one of the group’s artists—on a Swiss-South African art project exploring eviction and extraction.
Bua Komanisi
Despite its proud history, the South African Communist Party has recently taken a backseat in South African politics. Understanding its roots helps us understand how it got here and what it will take to be rejuvenated.
The problem with South African football
South Africa failed to qualify for the 2022 African Cup of Nations in Cameroon and has failed to qualify for the World Cup since 2002. What else can their long suffering fans endure?
Mobilizing in disorder
Post the looting and failed insurrection, what would it mean for the South African left to undertake a populist political strategy? And should it look to South America for inspiration? A long read.
History in the active voice
Research and investigative journalism have begun to identify the agents of Apartheid South Africa's violent history.
Searching for white genocide in South Africa
The plight of white South Africans has clearly become the flavor of the month on the far-right.
Flight of the Boers
South Africa's lead anti-land reform organization is cultivating its relationship with the international far right.