Norbert Ndjeka was born on World TB Day. Decades later, he would reshape how South Africa treats the deadliest forms of the disease
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…
This is an edited version of former co-editor Irwin Manoim’s speech delivered at a reunion of those who were there when the Weekly Mail, now the Mail & Guardian, was founded 40…
When a unity government was being formed in the 1990s there was suspicion and mistrust
The EFF leader changes his views faster than a Nigerian man running in flip-flops
The door-to-doors have door-to-doored and now it’s all over – except for the voting
Ten days before the first democratic election the extraordinary occurred when the leader of the liberation movement and that of the apartheid National Party sat down to talk
The change of street and place names rouses the country’s attention unlike anything else and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon
The Zulu traditional prime minister and his king quarrelled over the trust during his final months
As I enter the exhibition titled Names in Uphill Letters — A historiography of the newsmakers who tread(ed) South Africa’s soil, at the Workers Museum in Newtown, I encounter a…
The ruling party was unbanned 32 years ago on 2 February, but few ANC leaders can be feeling festive today
What can one fix with an 85-year-old white man whose apology to black people only surfaced after he is dead? The answer is nothing
His blanket apology did not cast him as a man of principle but as a man of cowardice
The problem with a racial superiority complex is that it does not come to an end with the abolishment of discriminatory laws but finds its expression informally
The regime’s last president may have ushered in democracy but he refused to take responsibility for the deeds of his National Party government
Mixed reactions from South Africans as apartheid’s last president, FW de Klerk, dies after battling with cancer
The death of apartheid’s last leader means some questions now remain forever unanswered
FW De Klerk died in his home having suffered from cancer
It’s been 30 years since South Africa signed the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and stuck to it
Covid has propelled citizens into feelings of a new shared identity in which the historical force of ‘whiteness’ is fading into irrelevance
