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Afro soul star: Berita will be holding a special Workers’ Day performance at The Market Theatre.

Berita’s ‘Echoes of The Soul’: A meditation on migrant workers

Berita’s Workers’ Day performance becomes a powerful meditation on migration, memory and xenophobia in a nation built through labour, movement and forgotten solidarities

The wine, steel, vehicle and insurance sectors are among those most affected by protectionist US tariffs.

US tariff shake-up sends ripples through African trade and global supply chains

This latest wave of tariff changes signals a broader trend toward economic nationalism and trade realignment.

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Global capital distribution’s tipping point and SA’s precarious path

Urgent reform is needed as dangerous socio-economic undercurrents swirl

South Africa is widely recognised as the most unequal society in the world, with a startling 71% of the country’s wealth concentrated in the hands of a mere 10% elite

South African society is fractured: Our imagination must come home

Nationhood is not visible. It exists as overlapping ideas and ideals that need to be formed collectively

In defiance of a judgment by the African court on human and peoples’ rights,capital punishment remains — even if death sentences are never executed

The death penalty is alive and well in Tanzania

In defiance of a judgment by the African court on human and peoples’ rights,capital punishment remains — even if death sentences are never executed

This photo taken on August 31, 2022 at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow shows the grave of Raisa Gorbacheva, the wife of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union who played a major role in ending the Cold War, and died in Moscow on August 30, 2022 aged 91. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)

Populism based not in patriotism, but in many nationalisms

Because populism is a pre-political idea, it can fracture the sense of collective identity that is necessary to uphold a liberal democracy, especially in nations with conflict in…

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Editorial: Praise for treasury’s Mogajane, but his replacement faces a battle

When Dondo Mogajane became director general of the national treasury, question marks were raised about his ability to defend the institution. Five years later, it was a war well…

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Editorial: The West dithers, but South Africa has to take some responsibility for this wave

We can’t bury our heads in the sand: there is no way to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic other than vaccination. South Africa — and the rest of Africa — still has a long way to go

Peri from the Netflix series Ethos.

Screen Grab: Istanbul’s eye

The Netflix drama ‘Ethos’ lays bare the divided soul of contemporary Turkey

Supporters gesture as they gather in front of former South African president Jacob Zumas rural home in Nkandla on July 4, 2021. – On July 3, 2021, hundreds of supporters gathered to show solidarity for former South African president Jacob Zuma outside his Nkandla homestead, as the deadline looms for him to surrender to the authorities. In an unprecedented ruling, the constitutional court told Zuma on June 29, 2021 to hand himself over by Sunday to start a 15-month jail term for contempt of court after he repeatedly refused to give evidence to corruption investigators. (Photo by Emmanuel Croset / AFP) (Photo by EMMANUEL CROSET/AFP via Getty Images)

The danger of Zuma’s Zulu nationalism

Jacob Zuma successfully used an appeal to tribal identity for his ascent to the presidency. And he tried to use it again to avoid being sent to jail

A quick trek to ancient Egypt during lockdown

Well, the pharaonic Voortrekker Monument to be precise for John Davenport

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The pandemic creates ideal conditions for the rise of populism

The state of politics and geopolitics has been exacerbated, rather than stabilised, by the coronavirus crisis

It is true that in the African continent, ethnicity is a dreaded term because of the continent’s experience with ethnicity- or tribe-based inter-group animosities and conflicts that, in some countries, morphed into genocides.
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Ethnic consciousness should not threaten African nation-building

Ethnic identity can be harnessed to strengthen national identity — and this can foster a continental-based African identity

Narendra Modi (Reuters)

Why will India’s prime minister not get the rapturous welcome he receives elsewhere?

We are South Africans. And Nehru’s expansive and humanistic vision, which we share, is at odds with an exclusivist ideology based on Hindu nationalism

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Can we revive our democratic imagination?

Nationalism on its own offers no guarantee of a democratic or progressive politics.