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Revolution: Three decades into democracy, South Africa remains trapped between constitutional freedom and the unresolved realities of land dispossession, inequality and economic exclusion. Photo: JMK
AUTSHUMAO

It is time for the Second Republic

Our private and political lives are always punctuated by upheavals and storms. These moments signal the direction we should take. The unfolding political and economic crisis in…

  • Muzi Sikhakhane
8 min read
In South Africa, the struggle against apartheid found its most potent voice in a confluence of literature and activism. Steve Biko, a revolutionary thinker and anti-apartheid activist, authored I Write What I Like.
APARTHEI LAWS

Black consciousness: Liberate black people from ‘the zone of non-being’

Every person regardless of colour is affected by a system that debases blackness and elevates whiteness

  • Jo-Mangaliso Mangaliso
6 min read
Robert Kyagulanyi, aka ‘Bobi Wine’, leader of the National Unity Platform.
ACHILEO KIVUMBI

Uganda’s parliament ignores rule of law

In defiance of a supreme court ruling, Uganda’s parliament under the National Resistance Movement’s President Yoweri Museveni has passed into law that civilians can be tried in…

  • Robert Kigongo
4 min read
For the few black people who ‘make it’ to justice, there are many more who struggle to access their basic human rights. (John McCann/M&G)
BLACK PEOPLE

Racism is still alive and well

For the few black people who ‘make it’ to justice, there are many more who struggle to access their basic human rights

  • Portia C Allen
3 min read
The Soweto riots of 1976 were part of a well-orchestrated reaction to apartheid.
FEES MUST FALL

Youth Day is just as much for the present as it is for the past

The spirit of defiance against injustice that was captured by the Soweto Uprisings in 1976 can still be felt among young people in post-apartheid South Africa

  • Connor Bam
3 min read