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Affirmation: Solidarity with Cuba, marking 65 years since the failed Bay of Pigs invasion by the imperialist US regime, which sought to destroy the Cuban Revolution. Photo: SACP

We stand with Cuba, our friend

The protests rejected this. They insisted that what we are seeing is the expansion of a single logic: imperial in character, colonial in structure, even when it speaks the…

Futile: Palestinians live among the wreck and rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu/Getty Images

Secret alliance: Israel and apartheid South Africa’s nuclear collaboration

With both countries intent on keeping in check the ‘barbarians at the gate’, South Africa used its uranium reserves and Israeli technical support to develop its nuclear programme

Stark: Paul du Toit’s The Unlikely Secret Agent

A very strange world …

Sparse, powerfully acted play brings the lives of anti-apartheid activist couple to the stage

Keeping it reel: Gordon Main (left), director of London Recruits, which premiered at the Johannesburg Film Festival.

Apartheid doccie is a blast

London Recruits is a film that tells of young foreigners who were recruited by the ANC

Upwardly mobile: Lindiwe Sisulu hugs President Cyril Ramaphosa at an ANC National Conference in 2017. Sisulu dropped her own presidential campaign shortly before the conference. (Gulshan Khan/AFP)

Andile Zulu: Sisulu obfuscates the true nature of power in South Africa

Power in post-apartheid South Africa lies with the party, the state and capital. The tourism minister masks her complicity with bad governance, and being part of the economic and…

Frank B. Wilderson III  standing in front of Vista University campus in Soweto, where he was a lecturer. This image is taken from an article written by Wilderson and published by Tribute magazine in 1994. The article exposed links between Vista University and the Broederbond. (Supplied)

Part I: ‘Afropessimism’ and the rituals of anti-black violence

Frank B Wilderson discusses ‘Afropessimism’, his memoir that analyses structural violence

Denis Goldberg poses for portraits in his home on May 15, 2018 in Hout Bay outside Cape, South Africa. (Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

Denis Goldberg: Man of integrity, freedom fighter and true mensch

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. — Chinua Achebe

ntegrity: The latest book from former ANC underground operative and later intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils covers the first 21 years of his life.

Gee-gee gambling on the Sabbath

Former minister Ronnie Kasrils writes in his memoir about what turns a boychick from the Jo’burg suburb of Yeoville into an ANC underground operative

Old comrades: (from left) Cyril Ramaphosa, Nelson Mandela and Jacob Zuma representing the ANC at Codesa in 1991.  (Walter Dhladhla/AFP)

Zuma spins a dangerous narrative

The former president’s claims about ANC spies is a political game of smoke and mirrors

On Monday, Ronnie Kasrils (R) said the intelligence services were central to former president Jacob Zuma’s “fight back” campaign, and that this began almost immediately after Zuma was sacked in 2004. (Gallo)

Kasrils says he warned ANC about factions using spooks

The report, released on Saturday by President Cyril Ramaphosa, details how the intelligence services were used to advance Jacob Zuma’s interests

Quiet fury: Economist Sampie Terreblanche did not go gentle into that good night

SA economist whose work went global wrote with a deep idealism

‘Terreblanche wrote with a deep idealism in a country frequently with the highest levels of inequality’

South Africa’s captain AB de Villiers celebrates reaching his century during the Cricket World Cup match against the West Indies.

This soldier will fight for JZ till the end

Kebby Maphatsoe, wary of Western ‘agents’, derides Ramaphosa as the white people’s darling

Jacques Pauw has received a cease and desist letter from the State Security Agency

DA guns for SSA boss Arthur Fraser

​The DA has threatened to take legal action if the police or the NPA refuse to prosecute State Security Agency director-general, Arthur Fraser.

ANC stalwart Ronnie Kasrils speaks during a gathering of civil society leading lights

Former Intelligence Minister asked Mbeki to stand for a third term to stop Zuma

At his book launch, Ronnie Kasrils said he asked former president Thabo Mbeki to contest for the role of ANC president.

Home Affairs raids ANN7 offices

Who’s keeping an eye on South Africa’s spies? Nobody, and that’s the problem

South Africa’s intelligence services operate secretly and with minimal oversight. So citizens will probably never know exactly what they are up to.

ANC stalwart Ronnie Kasrils speaks during a gathering of civil society leading lights

ANC lives in its own bubble – Kasrils

The ruling party is not honouring the confidentiality of the no confidence vote against Pres Zuma, former minister for intelligence services.

ANC veterans tell President Zuma to step down

ANC veterans and civil society members met at the steps of the Concourt on Wednesday and demanded that President Jacob Zuma resign.

The apology must be carried in its next edition

Press Council orders Sunday Times to apologise to Kasrils

Press Council appeals panel has ordered the Sunday Times to apologise to Ronnie Kasrils over a misleading poster and story.

The apology must be carried in its next edition

Kasrils sues after claim he set up Zuma for rape charge

The former intelligence minister has filed summons claiming R1-million from Deputy Defence Minister Kebby Maphatsoe for his "false" statements.

Zuma Trust Founder awarded millions in navy contracts

The awarding of R406-million in contracts to Zuma Trust Founder Don Mkhwanazi raises more questions around the secrecy in the Zuma presidency.