Chester Williams and the making of modern South African rugby
Williams, the only black South African player in the 1995 Rugby World Cup, was a complex figure in complex times. He deserves to be remembered as such.
Williams, the only black South African player in the 1995 Rugby World Cup, was a complex figure in complex times. He deserves to be remembered as such.
South African activist Dulcie September would have turned 84 today had she not been assassinated in March 1988. The podcast series They Killed Dulcie revisits the murder and her legacy.
The inadequacy of charity in tackling the legacies of apartheid and colonialism.
A new memoir by South African-American Stephanie Urdang offers a remarkable and feminist view of love, longing and revolutionary struggle.
The bases on which Israel's supporters believe it is subject to unfair criticism, are eerily similar to the rationalizations of apartheid South Africa's defenders in the 1970s and 80s.
The legacy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission twenty-one years later.
Apartheid propaganda, white media and Afrikaner nationalists painted Verwoerd's killer as crazy, but Dimitri Tsafendas was a committed political activist.
Albert Luthuli was ANC President when South Africa's biggest liberation movement turned to armed struggle. He's been the subject of much conjecture. What did he actually think about political violence?
The pain caused by the South African Apartheid government has been widely recorded. But we may not have heard the half of it.
South Africa's lead anti-land reform organization is cultivating its relationship with the international far right.
30 years ago, free speech advocates were more willing to tolerate far-right voices than oppose them. It's now happening again.
The plight of white South Africans has clearly become the flavor of the month on the far-right.
The "two state solution" for Israel and Palestine will be the culmination of the same political vision that motivated apartheid South Africa.
History reminds us that the past is not something that can or should be left behind. Rather, we are morally obliged to keep reflecting on them.
To what extent has South Africa and South Africans failed to address the aftermath of Apartheid, the resonances of which can be felt to this day? To what extent are we living in a post-traumatic space?
Over the last few months students in South Africa have called for the decolonisation of institutions
The agreement to establish a truth commission for Colombia have the sides looking at the South African experience.
The terrorist Dylan Roof is by no means the first white American to find common cause with racist colonial regimes in Africa.
In the documentary "Remembered Futures" the filmmakers interrogate the ways South Africans understand their own history and how this affects their futures.
The selective memory of 'Plot for Peace,' documentary film about South Africa's transition.