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South Africa cannot afford frivolous debates that treat borders as provisional or sovereignty as negotiable.

South Africa’s dangerous drift away from sovereignty and nationhood

Transnational commitments are celebrated, while attachment to the nation‑state is treated with suspicion

The land question is an issue of race but it is also about class and what the land is used for. Photo: Rogan Ward

The land question is about social relations as well as race

Organisations such as South Africa’s Abahlali baseMjondolo, Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement and the Diggers in England’s 17th century have faced violent repression from the…

A member of the Durban Metro Police looks at a looted retail store in central Durban, on July 11, 2021. – Several shops are damaged and cars burnt in Durban, following a night of violence. Police are on the scene trying to control further protests. It is unclear if this is linked to sporadic protests following the incarceration of former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo by – / AFP)

Privilege in a time of civil unrest

Not thinking about your position critically is an affront to marginalised people the world over

And as South Africa marks Human Rights Day, thirty years after human dignity was written into law, this is the reckoning we cannot postpone.

Apartheid lives: Why we still use that era’s ‘racial’ categories

While race is still central, it is the battle among the rich for the wealth of South Africa that has exacerbated inequality

A wild soda with gooseberries. (Photo: Zayaan Khan)

Indigenous food revivalists are cooking up a spiritual connection

Culinary activists such as Zayaan Khan and Tapiwa Guzha are prompting us to revisit and reclaim familiar, familial and traditional identities

Eusebius McKaiser: Arguments to challenge your inner racist

These three common responses to racism must be deconstructed until something … clicks

Month End, acrylic on paper, 2019 by Levy Pooe.

The Portfolio: Levy Pooe

Artist Levy Pooe conceptualises his work as ‘a social diary of being black in the city’

As the coronavirus spreads, governments and professionals are forced to ask a more fundamental question: “Is assisted reproduction an essential service?”

Are surrogate and IVF babies ‘essential’ in a pandemic?

Now is the time to examine how reproductive health in South Africa is riddled by inequities based on race and class