As we commemorate freedom, a familiar chorus returns: that South Africa has too many ‘race laws’, that redress has gone too far, that equality now demands forgetting
David Goldblatt’s Fragments of Fietas captures more than loss — it reveals how memory, belonging, and faith survive even after home is erased
His fair skin did not bring him any benefits during apartheid. He was regarded as too white by black people and too black by white people
Political interference, weak capacity and patronage hinder South Africa’s post-apartheid planning, leading to dysfunctional local government
Beneficiaries crying oppression are eating at the table apartheid set for them — and complaining when someone else is finally offered a chair
These towns are not anomalies, they are barometers of how far South Africa still needs to go in confronting the unfinished business of its past.
Omar Badsha’s journey from quiet observer to defiant artist in apartheid South Africa
Summer Flowers, representing South Africa at the 15th Dakar Biennale, is an homage to author Bessie Head
One Hundred Years of Dispossession: My Family’s Quest to Reclaim Our Land traces his family’s ongoing struggle to strengthen their restitution case
Duma Nokwe is the ideal example of the calibre of leader the world is crying out for today
The country’s biggest city will continue to grow as people seek jobs and a better life. But a ‘resentment’ towards urbanisation has prevented the government from unlocking its…
Books and academic articles tell us our own stories and help others to understand them
Given its rich heritage, the area should be considered a historically important site in which black landowner rights are integral
Through a combination of architectural photographs and autobiographical stories, a new book constructs memories of this historic neighbourhood
Cape Town’s oldest Black rugby club personifies the problems Black rugby faces, including attempts to have its history erased, being affected by apartheid and struggling…
Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap community was effectively sealed off from visitors more than a week before the president’s announcement
Families were forcibly removed during apartheid and this dispossession has not been rectified during democracy
An exhibition draws on people’s personal albums to reconstruct a past that is missing from current narratives
There were small gains to be had by finding loopholes in the laws that bolstered apartheid
Development initiatives need to consider the contexts, past and present, in which they occur to ensure human-centred solutions
