Unlearning Gandhi: A South African Narrative
South Africans are excessively familiar with the history of Mahatma Gandhi for many reasons.
The historic train incident that happened at a railway station in...
MSF Field Worker Remembers The Rwandan Genocide: “The Hate That Came...
This year marks 24 years since the Rwandan genocide. More than a million people were killed during the 100 days of violence. The Rwandan...
History Comes Alive At These Jozi Museums
There’s no doubt that Johannesburg is a happening city. It started way back when gold was discovered here in the 1880s and has continued...
Solomon Mahlangu: A hero of our youth
Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu was hanged on this day 38 years ago.
He was wrongfully charged with two counts of murder and three charges under the...
5 Things You Never Knew About Black Revolutionary Robert Sobukwe
Forty years ago on this day, February 27, Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe passed away. Sobukwe was a prominent South African political dissident who founded the...
Malema might have a point about South African Indian people
After Ecnomic Freedom Fighters commander-in-chief Julius Malema made controversial comments about Indian people during the party's 4th anniversary celebrations in Durban on July 29,...
Love, hope and life lessons in Always Another Country
Sisonke Msimang’s memoir, Always Another Country, is finally here and what a treat it is. Always Another Country contextualises the struggles of Msimang’s freedom...
Jaki Seroke, PAC Stalwart: “The Struggle Can Only Be Led By...
"In my view Sobukwe would have changed South Africa a little bit better than what it is now," PAC stalwart Jaki Seroke said in...
Young People On Mandela: He Could Have Done More For Us
The African National Congress (ANC) launched its Nelson Mandela Centenary celebrations on Sunday, 11 February. The purpose of this celebration is to commemorate the...
Five books about exceptional South African women you need to read
August 9 is Women's Day in South Africa, and we commemorate the anti-apartheid activists who marched on the Union Buildings and burned their pass...
Land: Why So Afraid Of A Debate?
If there ever was any doubt that different South Africans mean completely different things when they speak about the land, the debate sparked in...
In Conversation With Fatimah Asghar
Muslim, American, Pakistani-Kashmiri, poet, writer - in her debut poetry collection, Fatimah Asghar reflects on navigating those identities through questions of race, history, sexuality,...
Germany And South Africa: Humanity’s Tenuous Relationship With Progress
As genocide and concentration camps have entered our lives through what is happening to the Rohingya people and the internment of immigrant children in...
Harris Dousemetzis On Telling The TRUE Story Of “The Man Who...
“The Man Who Killed Apartheid” is a book aiming to contribute to “a post-colonial intellectual history of South Africa.” It is book 12 of...
Eight things you didn’t know about the University of Fort Hare
The University of Fort Hare (UFH) is known for its notable alumni - with many political figures who all hailed from this institution. The...
It’s time African lawmakers ditched their colonial wigs
We love to talk decolonisation in Africa and yet somehow we managed to miss the fact that in several African countries, lawyers and judges...
Documentary Filmmaker Enver Samuel on elevating unsung heroes through film
Dulcie September was a South African anti-apartheid political activist. She was assassinated in Paris on the 29th of March 1988. The 2021 documentary, Murder...
Dreaming of exile – memories of a rainbow nation childhood
For many South Africans who grew up in the post-1994 era, the myth of the 'rainbow nation' was a cornerstone of their childhood. Naledi...
Separating Fact From Fiction: The History of the Establishment of Israel
The establishment of the state of Israel was never recognised by the UN Security Council, which is the only body with the authority to...
Ronnie Kasrils, Zuleikha Mayat and Edwin Cameron remember Ahmed Kathrada
Ahmed Kathrada passed away in the earlier hours of Tuesday morning. He was 87. The Daily Vox team spoke to his contemporaries about their...
