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A sea of blue memorial peace race participants were ferried by dozens of boats to take part in the third annual 10km run and walk hosted by the Robben Island Museum Council. Photo: Marlan Padayachee
AUBREY MOKOAPE

Bittersweet return to Robben Island

For decades, the island was a towering emblem of punishment—first for enslaved labourers and lepers under colonial rule and later for the anti-apartheid resisters who dared to…

  • Marlan Padayachee
6 min read
People’s hero: A mural depicting Amílcar Cabral who was the foremost leader of the struggle for the independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde from Portugal. (Photo by GUIZIOU Franck / hemis.fr / hemis.fr / Hemis via AFP)
ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO

How Cabral, Fanon and Freire shaped the struggle against apartheid South Africa — and still inspire

Amílcar Cabral was assassinated 50 years ago today. His thought, which sometimes arrived in South Africa via a circuitous route, speaks to our current crisis with undiminished…

  • Richard Pithouse
8 min read