Political leaders and mourners gather in Bloemfontein to honour Mosiuoa Lekota, remembered for fierce convictions, humility, and a lifelong commitment to ordinary South Africans
Jackson was awarded South Africa’s National Order of the Companions of OR Tambo in Silver in 2013
This reflective review revisits the political courage and quiet influence that made Sally Motlana indispensable to the liberation struggle
Linda used his pen and camera to expose the unspeakable crimes of the apartheid regime and continued to fight for equality after democracy
An edited extract from Rory Riordan’s book ‘Apartheid Stalingrad’, in which he explores the struggle in the Eastern Cape in the 1980s
Lucia Mnguni remembers her husband Bongani Mnguni, who photographed some of South Africa’s most turbulent events
The former ANC MP was known as one of SA’s foremost thinkers and an author of the Freedom Charter
Fifty years ago, the anti-apartheid activist was killed in police custody. His family fought to survive after his death, and now they want justice.
In early 2018 the witness reversed his decision to give evidence about his last hours alive after the Hawks were 2 weeks late to take his statement
Colonel James Taylor will not be brought to book for his role in the death of Dr Hoosen Haffejee because of delays in getting the case to court
João ‘Jan’ Rodrigues’ application for a stay of prosecution has been dismissed. He will stand trial for the 1971 murder of activist Ahmed Timol
Were she alive, she would have shared the award with everybody
‘She is the embodiment of humanity; evidently, as a nurse, but above all, as a mother of Azania’
The two countries have similar experiences in injustices and systemic oppression
Lord Peter Hain has requested an "immediate investigation" into bank accounts held in London by South African state owned enterprises
“Long live Ahmed Timol, long live!”.
Timol’s family has spent the past four decades building a case to prove that the security police tortured and killed him
"The autobiography has as its linchpin political history, in particular the history of the ANC in South Africa before, during and after being banned."
“’We are Namibians, and not South Africans,’ he told the Supreme Court during his trial in Pretoria in 1967-1968"
South Africa and Mozambique on Monday commemorated the 30th anniversary of the former Mozambican president’s tragic death
