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Filmmaker Milisuthando Bongela. Photo: Hankyeol Lee

Milisuthando: A film reckoning with our past

Through Milisuthando, cultural thinker Milisuthando Bongela confronts South Africa’s unfinished healing — reimagining nationhood, belonging and love through deeply personal…

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Trends suggest social cohesion is on downward slide

In recent years, when social cohesion has been discussed in South Africa, it has been with an increasingly critical undertone

Operation Dudula members gathered in front of Kalafong and then Hillbrow hospitals to try to stop ‘illegal foreigners’ from receiving healthcare. Photo: File

How does SA heal from Dudula bullies and Stellenbosch varsity racists?

Our reactions would be more positive if we understand that bullies act out as result of their own pain

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

Tragic comedy: Leon Schuster and the cast of  Mad Buddies, his 2012 movie.

Oh Shucks, an accidental blackface hero

Leon Schuster is having a few movies of his removed from Showmax and Phumlani Pikoli figures: what better time to reflect on this bruh than now?

Right-wing Afrikaner movements seem to have forgotten that job reservation and other apartheid laws benefited white people at the expense of black people. Photo: Juda Ngwenya

Should we really celebrate the equality court ruling on the apartheid flag?

The recent ruling that displaying the old South African flag is hate speech has been welcomed in many circles. But it could have gone a lot further

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The 1 000th cut was the deepest

The reaction to Ashwin Willemse’s walk-out on TV exposes the racial fault lines of outrage

Constitution demands radical change

Constitution demands radical change

This starts with the economy. And a look back at 20 years of our founding document reveals how far we have come and how far we still have to go.

Review: The People versus the Rainbow Nation

This new documentary is a rollercoaster ride of students’ struggles for free education. But does it move you?

Ben Okri missed the moment in Pretoria.

Okri’s insufficient renaissance

Ben Okri’s recent talk in Pretoria on African renaissance, left some indignant and still nowhere closer to discovering their own “mini enlightenment”.

Editorial: Make the rainbow real

We need to work out how to make the knowledge gained over the past 20 years work for us.

Twist memory and you distort identity

The truth of our past is being airbrushed out of our minds for the sake of nation-building.

Bill of Rights allows rainbow flag to fly proudly over rainbow nation

I hope that at pride events, with rainbow flags flying high, we celebrate one of the freedom movement’s greatest icons, and reflect on his insight.

Bringing up children in happy and supportive family environment will contribute to a society free from violence.

The notion of ‘the other’ may drive violence in SA

Several flaws in the rainbow nation may account for South Africa’s frightened communities.