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In black and white: The Nkosi family circa 1942, in a photo taken on the steps of a church in Ferreirasdorp, Johannesburg. Morley Nkosi, author of the memoir The Way Home, is seated in the middle.

Exile in Cairo: Between the Nile and the struggle

Morley Nkosi recalls exile in Cairo, where cramped rooms, African solidarity and global politics shaped the uncertain journey to freedom

Imtiaz Cajee says an investigation needs to be held into why there has yet to be a prosecution of perpetrators in TRC-related cases. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Ramaphosa urged to establish judicial inquiry into lack of apartheid prosecutions

Imtiaz Cajee, the nephew of murdered anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol, will recommend an inquiry to probe the capture of the NPA and SAPS

Defiant: Fatima Meer’s book recalls her life of struggle against apartheid

Surviving the violence of a police state

In the 1970s and 1980s, activists were subjected to arson attacks and assassination attempts. Fatima Meer describes her experience

The Soweto riots of 1976 were part of a well-orchestrated reaction to apartheid.

African youth are bystanders in their own economies

The post-1994 dispensation has failed to give young Africans a sense of passion and hope for the future.

Amina Cachalia.

Struggle veteran Amina Cachalia has passed away

‘Cachalia deserves a special place in our history for her humility and commitment over many decades to the cause of freedom,’ says the presidency

‘Patriot of special quality’ Nthato Motlana dies in Johannesburg

Anti-apartheid activist, businessman and Mandela family physician Nthato Motlana has died at his Johannesburg home after a long battle with cancer.

Bheki Jacobs. Photograph: Laird Forbes/Independent

Master of information

Bheki Jacobs, who died last week at the age of 46, was one of the most remarkable figures to come out of the liberation struggle.

A heritage that shames us

The idealism of SA’s anti-apartheid struggle is in danger of dissolving in the acid of pragmatism, warns public intellectual Darshan Vigneswaran.

The centenary of a bonfire

The seeds of a non-racial struggle and the adoption of a policy of non-discrimination were sown by Gandhi’s approach.

Raising the Bar

Former DA leader Tony Leon says the crisis in the judiciary has been more than a decade in the making.

Keeping it reel

The story of the late Onkgopotse Tiro is told in a brooding documentary by Steve Mokwena called <i>A Blues for Tiro</i>.