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Is South African trade unionism at a turning point?
Does the gradual increase in the number of strikes indicate that a new wave of offensive strikes has begun? Or is it just a short-lived revival among a depressing long wave of defensive strikes?
The specter of Mannetjies Roux
An encounter on a cross continental flight with white South African men and their ways, by Robina Marks, a black woman and South Africa’s ambassador in Benin.
What would a Hillary Clinton win mean for Africa?
Ever more extraction and exploitation, nicely packaged in the optimistic promise of sustainability, ‘good business climates’, partnership, democracy and ‘change’.
The right to belong imperfectly
In South Africa, one of xenophobia’s quieter moral mechanisms is the way foreign wrongdoing is made to carry more meaning than citizen wrongdoing.
The great opus of “Small Bobby”
Ranjith Kally (1925-2017), a legendary photographer, documented South African Indian life in famed magazine Drum.
Do we really need prisons and police?
Can policing deliver justice in South Africa? The short answer to that question has been, decidedly, no.
The cultural resilience of a creole city
On this month’s AIAC Radio we head to Cape Town to understand how this creole city's musical culture resisted containment throughout history. Listen on Worldwide FM and follow us on Mixcloud.
Do you know Omar al Bashir?
Omar Al Bashir has long been the focus of Save Darfur and the Enough Project. But how many of those targeted by their campaigns, could recognize Sudan's president.
Thinking aloud with Stuart Hall
The re-emergence of racialized modes of thinking, racism and discrimination across the West, makes reading and re-reading Stuart Hall urgent.
World famous in South Africa
Detriot singer Sixto Rodriguez’ albums are masterpieces - at times on par with some of Bob Dylan's work - but he was only famous in South Africa
Why, despite it all, I’m still a fan of the Springboks
We should not let the achievements of a multiracial Springbok rugby team, led by its first black captain, be commodified and commercialized in the service of neoliberalism.
Yes, some Africans admire Margaret Thatcher
We were wrong. Some Africans do like Margaret Thatcher. Here's a gallery of 10 of them.
For us, Zimbabweans, South Africa is home
We consider ourselves an indispensable and integral part of its national life, because it is our home, writes a Zimbabwean scholar.
The pitfalls of symbolic decolonization
Mukoma wa Ngugi's opening remarks at the launch (today) of the 2020 Writers Unlimited International Literature Festival in The Hague.
To revolutionize a culture
The writer on Frank’s Archive, based on her father's records, that explores the different functions of books, power and knowledge.