Refusing neat conclusions, The Trials of Winnie Mandela invites viewers into an uncomfortable but necessary confrontation with history, legacy, and generational trauma
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 death of Spokes Sithole at 108 exposes the broken promise of one of South Africa’s largest land restitution settlements, where freedom and land ownership have not translated…
A powerful reflection on how Isitha Sabantu channels Fanon’s radical thought into a deeply political, emotionally resonant theatre of resistance and remembrance
He said the party would be run strictly, with zero tolerance for corruption, ill-discipline and factionalism
Three new books spotlight Indian South Africans who helped shape the nation — through resistance, reflection and reinvention in unexpected places
Throughout his career, Tito highlighted the importance of involving young people in governance structures alongside experienced leaders
A resurgent conspiracy theory that Nelson Mandela died in 1985 reveals the growing hopelessness in South Africa that rampant inequality is irreversible
Be aware that history repeats itself — even when two types of government appear vastly different
Change is slow in coming to the single-sex hostels plagued by social and infrastructural problems
For as long as we trap ourselves in our narrow categories and views, we won’t find the path to a truly liberated, humanist future.
The Uber driver and I both had smartphones and the app, but that did not mean that we inhabited the same world — not by a long shot.
Soweto, Time of Wrath is an unfiltered portrait of the raw realities of post-apartheid South Africa.
