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Fleeing: Media is urged to stop calling white South Africans who relocated to United States ‘refugees’.

SA’s moral, technical high ground upends unipolar narrative

The “white genocide” narrative works inside this wider machinery. It racialises South Africa’s internal contradictions for foreign consumption. It turns a country struggling with…

Questioning state and corporate motives should be routine

Captains of industry may appear the benevolent saviours of a state in decline, but we ought to question their intentions

Cattle were the main symbol of wealth among Africans: they had multiple uses, as food, labour or in trade. They were also symbolic, connecting families and villages in cultural rites and maintaining the links between the living and the dead.

Land, slavery and cattle matter: To move forward, we need to look back

In a three-part series on South Africa’s land question, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi takes a look at the colonial conquests that drove us here

Tastes of travel: Delicious dishes, inspired by faraway lands. Photos: Supplied
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Spices beyond Cape Malay

Travel and living abroad for nine years inspired Cariema Isaacs to write a new cookbook

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Mummy’s hung in for a long time

Mumia was believed to come from embalmed corpses’ bone or tissue, but it seems more likely to have been the bitumen used in mummification

Kabila was catapulted to power aged 29 after his father’s assassination. (Kenny Katombe/Reuters)

​Arundhati Roy: Brilliant, troubled and troubling

The acclaimed author unwittingly finds herself in disputed territory but she sticks to her principles and keeps on fighting

A man washes in one of the mountain’s many streams near the ruins of a stone ‘dam’built during the colonial era.

Ancient water could solve modern crisis in Cape Town

A Cape Town researcher believes the city should return to Table Mountain and the Camissa water system in its quest to resolve its current problems

Free State Four: Crimen injuria probed

Police are investigating a case of crimen injuria in relation to a racist video made by students at the University of the Free State. The video, which caused national outrage,…