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Prize-winner: Variations on a Theme was cast entirely from the local community. Photos: Supplied

Directors Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar push creative boundaries with Variations on a Theme

A poetic, genre-blurring film, Variations on a Theme excavates ancestral grief, memory and forgotten histories in a Northern Cape community still waiting for justice

Former Anglo underground mine workers in Newtown, Johannesburg. Photo: Brian Sokutu

Mine communities group launches campaign against Anglo over plight of former workers

The Mining Affected Communities United in Action says the mining giant must ‘take full responsibility for unpaid debts and abandoned communities’

Doreen Badze, a traditional healer and agroecologist, leads the way in restoring Africa’s food sovereignty. From planting seeds to harvesting nutritious crops like spinach and okra, she demonstrates how women farmers are healing the land, empowering communities and nurturing sustainable, ecologically sound food systems.

African faith leaders demand reparations from Gates Foundation over industrial farming harm

More than 600 faith leaders across the continent say the Gates Foundation’s Green Revolution model has deepened poverty, degraded soils and undermined food sovereignty

In Nigeria, oil extraction continues to pollute the Niger Delta.

The African Union must include climate reparations on its agenda

Reparations are not only for slavery and colonialism, it’s also for the Global North’s environmental legacy and their disproportionate carbon emissions that harm Africa

Slaves cut cane in the Caribbean. The recently published book, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism and Reparations explores slavery around the world.

Global Africa’s quest for reparations for crimes against humanity

This excerpt is from the recently published book, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism and Reparations (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2024)

Effects of climate change: Guludo on Ibo Island in Mozambique after Cyclone Idai struck in 2019. The country subsequently took out a $118 million loan from the IMF. (Zinyange Auntony/AFP)

Reparations a no-go zone at COP27

Developing nations are calling for the countries most responsible for climate change to pay for loss and damage

Deliberate mongrelisation: Yinka Shonibare has put on a show that juxtaposes an electic mix of culture to celebrate the restitution of African artefacts and acknowledge our disconnect relationship with the past. Photo: Michael Hall

Shonibare celebrates Africa’s contribution to modernism

British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare offers us a mongrelised vision for the future with his new hybrid forms

In a letter to Ramaphosa, the Khulumani Support Group has urged that a meeting must be held to address victims of apartheid who have been excluded from receiving reparations. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Ramaphosa under pressure to support reparations for apartheid victims

President Cyril Ramaphosa has been urged to release grants for apartheid victims, as recommended by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Although two thirds of job losses were experienced by women, two thirds of the recipients of the R350 Covid-19 grant were men (John McCan/M&G)

Cyril’s atonement for Marikana: Compensation is nearly ready

Ramaphosa addressed the massacre of 34 workers at the Lonmin Platinum mine in 2012 for the first time since being elected president in Parliament

Human skulls from the Herero and ethnic Nama people are displayed during a ceremony in the auditorium of Berlin’s Charite hospital on September 30 2011.

​Activists ramp up Herero and Nama reparation demands on film

Filmmaker Vincent Moloi hopes to raise the profile of reparation with ‘Skulls of My People’.

Gracelands: People celebrate along the Mazowe road the downfall of the Mugabe couple.

​Herero make new claim for genocide reparations against Germany

Namibians have brought a renewed lawsuit in the United States against Germany’s extermination policy.

A new concept came out of the 8th Pan-African Congress

Arabs and the West must pay for slavery, says Pan-African Congress

The 8th Pan-African Congress has called for reparations regarding the extensive and continuing damage colonialism has done, writes Bennie Bunsee.

It has been 15 years since the TRC and victims are still waiting for redress and closure.

Reparations still on the back foot

In 2013 a fund for the victims of apartheid will have more cash than it did when it was created as it continues to accumulate interest.