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Nelson Mandela  believed that forgetting the past would help white people embrace democracy.

We must not give up on achieving Madiba’s dreams

Let the legacy of Nelson Mandela strengthen our national goal of good for all as the Global South finds its rightful place

ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte has died. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte has died

Duarte died after an eight month battle with cancer

Doyenne of the Drum decade: Dolly Rathebe was a pioneer black female celebrity. Photo: Nick de Blois/Gallo Images/Sunday Times

Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s original black superstar

Dolly Rathebe’s musical legacy is inseparable from the cultural life of Sophiatown.

Politically spiritual: Robert Sobukwe believed that politics is an ethical duty and that personal transformation is required to produce ethical leaders. (Robben Island/Mayibuye Archives)

Human Rights Day: South Africa continues to neglect the legacy of Robert Sobukwe

The memory of the influential former leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress has been shunted to the margins in the country’s sham democracy

As compromised as we may think the present, we have much for which to thank the dead when we look at what does work in this society, writes the author. (John McCann/M&G)

SA today is another country     

1994 set us on the path to freedom, but much must still be fixed and new problems await us

Albertina Sisulu played a key role in South Africa’s liberation. (Lauren Mulligan Gallo/Images/Foto24)

Herstory needs to be rewritten and read

Women remain the wallpaper of history and are daily denied a voice in our patriarchal society

This year marks the 4th edition of Africa Month in South Africa and this year it is celebrated under the theme ‘The Year of Nelson Mandela: Building a Better Africa and a Better World’

Celebrate Africa Month this May

This year is the centenary of Nelson Mandela and Albertina Sisulu

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Cyril, the purple shall govern

‘You wore a purple tie for Sona. Let’s paint South Africa purple!’

Ramaphoria: South Africa has to attract ​capital inflows after years of reputational damage.

Cyril’s new dawn: Youth first, land expropriation without compensation

The “new dawn” philosophy was the overriding message of newly elected president Cyril Ramaphosa as he delivered his maiden State of the Nation address

The crowd at the Union Buildings on August 9 1956. About 20 000 women marched to Pretoria to protest against passes for black women.

60 Iconic Women — The people behind the 1956 Women’s March to Pretoria

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the anti-pass march to the Union Buildings, we profile 60 of its participants and organisers

Letters to the editor: June 10 to 16 2016

Readers write in about Hlaudi Motsoeneng, Kelvin Kemm, Shaun Abrahams, and Nkosi Johnson.

ANC looks to ‘lessons of discipline

ANC looks to ‘lessons of discipline, respect’

ANC will focus on the values of the generation of party members who had passed on, as it turns 100 in 2012, chairperson Baleka Mbete said on Friday.

Madiba mourns his ‘beloved sister’ Albertina Sisulu

Madiba mourns his ‘beloved sister’ Albertina Sisulu

Nelson Mandela has praised anti-apartheid heroine Albertina Sisulu as "the mother of all our people", in a statement at her funeral.

Albertina Sisulu’s final journey

Albertina Sisulu’s final journey

Hushed singing could be heard as African National Congress stalwart Albertina Sisulu’s coffin was wheeled into the stadium.

Noordgesig helicopter shooting not true, say police

Police have denied shooting rubber bullets and teargas at protesters from two helicopters on Friday night in Noordgesig, Soweto.

Mourning a gentle activist

Mourning a gentle activist

The way she lived, what she did for her country and her high moral values leave a large legacy.

Sisulu’s funeral to be held at Orlando Stadium

The official funeral of ANC veteran Albertina Sisulu will take place on Saturday at Orlando Stadium in Soweto.

Motlanthe pays his respects to Sisulu’s family

Motlanthe pays his respects to Sisulu’s family

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe visited Albertina Sisulu’s Linden, Johannesburg, home to pay his respects to her family on Saturday.

Mourners pour into Sisulu home

Mourners pour into Sisulu home

Members of Gauteng province’s mayoral arrived at Albertina Sisulu’s house at around the same time as Winnie Madikizela-Mandela to pay their respects.

Albertina Sisulu ‘was truly the mother of the nation’

Albertina Sisulu ‘was truly the mother of the nation’

Albertina Sisulu combined political and parental guidance in her work against apartheid, the ANC said in a tribute on Friday.