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Karin Mitchell’s The High Treason Club reconstructs South Africa’s Boeremag trial, revealing extremist plots, ideological fervour and the fragility of democracy

Reckoning with South Africa’s white supremacist threat

Karin Mitchell’s The High Treason Club reconstructs South Africa’s Boeremag trial, revealing extremist plots, ideological fervour and the fragility of democracy

Hot stuff: Now the executive chef at the Radisson Red Hotel in Rosebank, Johannesburg, Keegan Maistry
learned about cooking curry from his grandfather and his mother.

Love, curry and resistance: The culinary support behind SA’s political prisoners

Food is about so much more than mere physical sustenance, it is chock-full of feelings too

Freedom fighter Denis Goldberg talks to the media at Liliesleaf Farm, the apartheid-era hideout for Nelson Mandela and freedom fighters in Johannesburg, on July 11, 2013 in Rivonia, South Africa. It is 50 years since the hideout was raided by police on July 11, 1963. The farm was the secret nerve centre for the Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the ANC and the Congress Alliance. Police interrupted a meeting of Operation Mayibuye, a plan to overthrow the Apartheid government. The raid by police led to the arrest of Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada, Govan Mbeki and Denis Goldberg, who were convicted through the infamous Rivonia Trial and most were sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island.  (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

A full life, well lived

Denis Goldberg was a forthcoming, funny, angry, brutally honest and impressive man who never stopped fighting for what he believed in

People walk by a presidential campaign billboard of United Party for National Development

Zambia to drop treason charges against Hichilema

Main opposition leader to be freed from prison on Monday after negotiations

Liberation struggle icon with husband Joe Slovo

Slovo, First biography – Bedfellows of a different feather

Alan Wieder’s biography on Joe Slovo and Ruth First focuses on the couple’s relationship, their different personalities and opposing views.

‘The reaction by the ANC leadership to the voices of young people posted on an FNB website as part of its “You Can Help” campaign is troubling.’

ANC’s ‘treason’ cry a repressive apartheid tactic

For democracy to succeed, we need more, not less, dialogue, particularly among the youth, says Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela.

Suspected Namibian secessionist acquitted after 13 years

Rodwell Kasika Mukendwa was accused number 106 in the trial in which a remaining 110 men face 278 charges of high treason.

Boeremag treason suspects lose their chains

A High Court judge has restored privileges to six of the Boeremag treason trial accused, ruling that they may appear in court without leg irons.

Ugandan journalist charged with treason

A Ugandan journalist suspected of involvement in rebel activity has been charged with treason and remanded in custody, his lawyer said on Wednesday.

Zim judge throws out Biti treason case

A judge has ended the treason trial of a top Zimbabwean opposition leader, saying prosecutors appear unprepared to proceed.

Tendai Biti’s treason trial set for May

The treason trial of the secretary general of Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change, Tendai Biti, has been set for May 4.

Treason trial 11 on hunger strike over ‘unequal treatment’

Eleven treason trialists are on hunger strike – because the blacks among them are denied privileges granted to the whites.