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Bound: Black men arrested for being in white area illegally. Photo: Ernest Cole
ALF KUMALO

Brash photographer Ernest Cole revisited

House of Bondage: The book that shocked the world

  • Oupa Nkosi
6 min read
The strike
ANC

Chris Hani in his own words

‘I disagree with a lot of people who think that (former apartheid president) FW de Klerk and others have changed’

  • Lizeka Tandwa
2 min read
Chris Hani was shot dead in the driveway of his home in 1993. Photo: Supplied
ANC

Remembering Chris Hani: Lessons for today

The name of SACP struggle hero Chris Hani, who was assassinated in 1993, is regularly invoked to win political arguments in South Africa.

  • Arianna Lissoni
6 min read
Millions of Congolese have fled their homes and have either gone to camps for internally displaced people or crossed borders to other countries in the region. (John Wessels/AFP)
BANKS

Transformation debate morphs into development debate

Banks and communists seldom go well together.

  • Comment Stuart Theobald
5 min read
ALEXANDER VOLOSHIN

Medvedev vows to uphold Putin legacy

Russia’s next president Dmitry Medvedev pledged to uphold Vladimir Putin’s policies on Monday after a big election win that critics said was stage-managed to let the outgoing…

  • Christian Lowe
7 min read