Creator
Sisonke Msimang is the author of Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home, and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela. She is a fellow at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research
Their role in our democracy has been invaluable, and they will need our protection and support
Reflecting on white joy, black celebration, and the meaning of the Springbok win at the 2019 Rugby World Cup
If South Africa is neither hopeful nor tragic, what posture should we take in relation to the future?
Voters need to be well-informed and some arrangement must be made to end to the lies and misinformation
Sisonke Msimang calls for legacy projects to honour a ‘bright red sun’ who was never able to skip, carefree, down a country lane
When Hugh Masekela blew his trumpet, you felt as if you were watching a human being in full flight
Poor people living in the slums of Africa and Haiti have indeed a miserable life.
‘It would be foolhardy to suggest that discussions about corruption in South Africa are race neutral’
The law is on the side of men. It doesn’t reflect the real world of tears, torn panties and scepticism
‘This book is about how I was made by the liberation struggle and how I was broken by it’
Pru was my guide to the new South Africa and the best role model, who didn’t tell me what to do, she showed me.
Every week on the radio and in the newspapers it was the same names and faces.
Young black South Africans have been raised to believe that friendship across the races is an indicator of progress. Now, they are questioning this.
Growing up, I was taught that reading was the key to life. Now I read to write.
The Uber driver and I both had smartphones and the app, but that did not mean that we inhabited the same world — not by a long shot.
Mama, back from exile, opened a pan-African restaurant but new elites wanted Western food.
It matters a great deal that the partnership between Helen Zille and Mampela Ramphele dissolved so quickly, writes Sisonke Msimang.
If the AU is serious about dispensing justice it will fast-track the long-mooted African Court of Justice.
The focus of transformation in the judiciary has been almost entirely on race and sexism has been ignored, says Nomonde Nyembe and Sisonke Msimang.
Madiba is lauded for his contribution to the recognition of black people’s dignity, and for guaranteeing the human rights of sexual minorities.
