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Outgoing federal council chair Helen Zille. Photo:(@Our_DA/X)

Resist pull of race-based politics, warns Helen Zille

Outgoing federal council Helen Zille calls on delegates to campaign in good spirit and accept congress outcomes

EFF leader Julius Malema. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

EFF to use ‘kill the boer’ as part of 2026 election strategy

The Economic Freedom Fighters insist on the use of the struggle song as a rallying cry ahead of the polls

President Cyril Ramaphosa, new minister of agriculture John Steenhuisen, and vice president Paul Mashatile. (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

A government of national interest is more urgent than the GNU

Influenced by middle-class issues, the government of national unity may neglect the problems of the poor

The urine affair: race reflections through the Stellenbosch incident

Furthermore, each time a black person speaks openly about race it is mistaken for a confrontation. Perhaps black people themselves are not socialised to be confrontational…

Take your pick: Fresh Harvest farm in Greenfield, California, is one of the largest employers of foreigners working on temporary agricultural worker – or H-2A – visas in the US. Photo: Brent Stirton/Getty Images

Soil and trials: South Africans embroiled in US farm worker visa debate

The Mississippi court case is unique; usually the grievances are against Mexicans accused of taking work from Americans

Reverend Frank Chikane at Carlswald Estate, Midrand. (Photograph: James Puttick)

Q&A Sessions: Frank Chikane on the rainbow where colours never meet

Reverend Frank Chikane has just completed six years as the chairperson of the Kagiso Trust. He speaks about corruption, his children’s views and how churches can be mobilised

A common criticism levelled against elite former white schools is their lack of transformation (John McCann)

What is the future of black lives in historically white, elite schools?

These schools, to varying degrees, have an intense attachment to the values of authority and obedience — it is an attachment which numbs critical thought

South Africa’s present moment calls for deeper conversation on identity. (John McCann/M&G)

Let’s slay some myths about identity politics

Just because you choose to reject an identity you are born with, does not mean it is not there

“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’

Tess Asplund

Who can be racist: Understanding charges of racism within the philosophical community

On the question of who can or cannot be racist, from a philosophical point of view, there seems to be no substantive debate

‘The Endless River’ shatters awkward silence on race, rape and violence in SA

This new feature film zooms in on race and class divides that continue to haunt the so-called Rainbow Nation.

A strange encounter with a direction-seeking stranger on the Sea Point Promenade left columnist Rebecca Davis bewildered and bemused.

From candid to can-do? The joke’s on us

Ever on guard about being seen as racist, you can’t count on white folks to roll with the punchline.

An entrepreneurship sub-committee on the Human Resources Development Council reports to Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe.

Race is dividing SA – Motlanthe, de Klerk, Rupert

Former presidents FW de Klerk and Kgalema Motlanthe, and business tycoon, Johann Rupert, spoke of race and social inequality at a conference.

Connected? The hooked-on-social-media-world inhibits spontaneous conversation

Don’t leave forgiveness out of SA’s race debate

We can have more honest conversations about race but we cannot reject forgiveness and its aim of reconciliation, writes Verashni Pillay.

We will never survive as a nation or as humans if we put up racial barriers to isolate ourselves from one another, economically, socially and politically.

Khaya Dlanga: Affirmative action is here, deal with it

Although affirmative action is at times abused and unfairly used, it is still far from unnecessary. We just need to learn how to make it work.

Zwelakhe Dubasi has apologised over comments he made about white pupils who died when a bridge collapsed in 2019.

From a Place of Blackness: Throwing the book at empty interracial dialogue

A book relating three years of exchanges between Andile Mngxitama and Aryan Kaganof speaks of the failure of good race relations in a racist society.

Nonracialism must include all humanity

Is black consciousness (or African nationalism) a manifestation of a class-in-itself?

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LL Cool J and Paisley ‘Accidental Racist’ song stirs up controversy

A song about racial perception has drawn the ire of both the country and urban music worlds after its wide release.

Black consciousness: Time to breach the white hole of oppression

White people themselves have to debunk the myth of their supremacy. It can’t come from blacks, writes Malaika wa Azania.

Scrumming against apartheid: The De Akker Vyftiental rugby club in the Stellenbosch pub from which they took their name.

Apartheid-defying rugby team still too ‘sensitive’

An agricultural firm in the US will not say why it pulled out of plans to fund a film on an apartheid-busting social rugby club of the 1980s.