The thread that held the conversation together was clear from the beginning: justice. Not the abstract kind confined to courtrooms and legal textbooks but justice as a lived…
For many African public intellectuals such as Steve Biko, Leopold Senghor, Kenneth Kaunda, Julius Nyerere and Kwame Nkrumah, political independence represented more than the…
For decades, the island was a towering emblem of punishment—first for enslaved labourers and lepers under colonial rule and later for the anti-apartheid resisters who dared to…
South Africa is in crisis and the intra-elite battles about how to move forward do not offer any viable path towards a just way resolution
Many in the legal profession today continue to benefit from systems of exclusion they did not create, but from which they continue to draw advantage
To speak against Julius Malema’s use of the chant is not to stand with racists but with the Constitution
Bringing together the traditional and the modern, Thandiswa Mazwai is taking her new album Sankofa to the world
A new publication sustains the discussion of the ideas of a creative and courageous radical for a new generation
Musicians have carried his ideology forward – but what would he make of today’s politics?
From critiques of apartheid to reflections on post-colonial identity, Southern African literature has chronicled the region’s history and shaped its trajectory to a just society
Thirty years into its rule, the NP faced the reality of its demise. The ANC faces a similar reality This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get Your Free…
Leveraging colour as a means of progress can have a paradoxical effect of self-incarceration
The founder of Black Consciousness kept evolving; by the time of his terrible death he was moving away from hard-line racial isolationism. DREW FORREST traces his development in…
Chris Hani’s daughter Lindiwe Hani has learnt to not be buried by his assassination 30 years ago but to draw strength from the way he lived his life
Amílcar Cabral was assassinated 50 years ago today. His thought, which sometimes arrived in South Africa via a circuitous route, speaks to our current crisis with undiminished…
Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata’s impressive African history book by non-historians
We must leverage local knowledge and materials to develop an architecture uniquely suited to our needs and conditions
The party of socialist Black Consciousness has fresh leaders and a pact with the Pan Africanist Congress to begin working at the local level to create a viable and radical Left
The bitterly polarised controversy over the status of transgender people has spawned attacks on freedom of thought and speech at British and South African universities
Tutu’s influence on South Africa has been immense, offering hope for a brighter future while never shirking the responsibility of doing what is needed to achieve it
