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For Elon Musk, to call broad-based black economic empowerment ‘racist’ is to eat at the table apartheid set for you and complain when someone else is finally offered a chair.

Elon Musk and the irony of calling black economic empowerment racist

Beneficiaries crying oppression are eating at the table apartheid set for them — and complaining when someone else is finally offered a chair

Justice Minister Ronald Lamola. (Gallo Images/Alet Pretorius)

In integrity there is justice

Duma Nokwe is the ideal example of the calibre of leader the world is crying out for today

Absurdist mentality: Diamond mine workers in a cage. (Photo: Jochen Blume/Ullstein Bild/Getty Images)

The mechanism of contagion in racism

How race came to function as fuel to an exploitative economic system. Take the case of South Africa…

On reflection: Dimitri Tsafendas was sent to Sterkfontein mental hospital in Krugersdorp after years in prison (seen here in 1976). (Courtesy of Gordon Winter)

The biographies of Robert McBride and Dimitri Tsafendas share a curious resonance

Although the two men were from different generations, their lives both lay bare the atrocities of the apartheid state

Racist reward: Legendary golfer Gary Player is not only known for his sporting prowess, but also for utterances and behaviour that appeared to have supported apartheid. (Edward Beresford Golding/Fairfax )

A Player in apartheid gets award

South Africa’s legendary golfer, who is said to have aided the past regime, is honoured by Trump

(John McCann/M&G)

A usefully awkward encounter with Verwoerd

An interview with Wilhelm Verwoerd raises a conundrum about how to grapple with our past

Whether storming the Capitol or staging walkouts in parliament, rama of defiance often takes precedence over the slow work of governance. Graphic: John McCann/M&G

Don’t censor the red berets, describe them

People need the facts to make informed choices, which is what journalists should be providing

Tsafendas avoided the death penalty but was detained on death row until 1994 when he was moved to a mental institution. (Die Burger/Media24)

Verwoerd’s assassin a complex ‘hero’

Dimitri Tsafendas, the man who killed the architect of apartheid, was an enigmatic ‘revolutionary’ with a ‘deep social conscience’

The project of rendering South Africa more equal is one of enormous complexity

The law can change racist minds

Unexpressed racism may be even more dangerous if it’s left lurking below the surface

“We must never give him space; we gave Zuma space for nine years and look what he did.”

Unravelling Darwin’s ‘hunch’

This beautifully written, well researched story of the origins of man forces us to today confront the social construct of ‘race’

September 1966. The body of Dr H.F. Verwoerd

Jury’s still out on whether Tsafendas was a political hero or a deranged assassin

It’s 50 years since Demitrio Tsafendas murdered Hendrik Verwoerd. In a new book, his advocate’s son describes how his legacy remains in limbo.

Melanie married into the family

Our best Verwoerd forward

Melanie married into the family, but found that the name has been as much a source of strength as a burden.

Democratic Alliance MP’s John Moodey and Ian Ollis.

FF Plus: DA renamed Verwoerd Primary to gain black voters

The Democratic Alliance has condemned the Freedom Front Plus over its criticism regarding the name change of Dr Verwoed Primary School in Meyerton.

‘The security and happiness of all minority groups in South Africa depend on the Afrikaner …’ — PW Botha

Apartheid speech came as big surprise

The Rubicon speech was received with great dismay by South Africa’s diplomats, writes Pieter Wolvaardt.

FF+: DA in late-night raid on Verwoed statue

Members of the DA removed a statue of the architect of apartheid, Hendrik Verwoerd, from Meyerton on Wednesday night, the FF+ has claimed.