A Man, Woman, And A Baby Visit South Africa
Petra Diamonds Limited on Monday announced the discovery of a big blue diamond. The mining company confirmed that 20.08 carat blue diamond had been...
Extract from Noni Jabavu: A Stranger at Home
Noni Jabavu, the first Black South African woman to publish books of memoir, was also one of the first African women who pursued a...
Extract: Get out of your Mind
In “Get out of your Mind: Lessons on embracing difference from South Africa and beyond” Luyanda Mpahlwa and Klaus Doppler use their shared experiences....
9 Poems That Reveal Nelson Mandela’s Impact
A fallen icon can never truly die. They are memorialised in the work of artists, the pens of history, and the lips of the...
What Mandela Day Means To Born-Frees
July 18 is Nelson Mandela International Day, where South Africans and all people come together to celebrate the life of the first democratically elected...
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...
Maytha Alhassen And Natalia Molebatsi On Afro-Palestinian Solidarity
"We have to speak about our solidarity with the people of Palestine. It is urgent and it is important," South African poet and writer...
Five places you should visit to celebrate International Museum Day
18 May is International Museum Day, and museums around the country are celebrating with free entrance today. This year's theme is "Museum and contested...
Why we all deserve to see the new Winnie documentary
There is arguably nobody in South Africa politics that has been more demonised in the media than Mam’ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, commonly juxtaposed to her...
Remembering PAC anti-pass activist Philip Kgosana (1936-2017)
Former student leader and PAC activist Philip Kgosana has died. He was 81. Kgosana is best known for mobilising students in anti-pass protests in...
Book Extract: New History of South Africa
This newly updated, comprehensive history of South Africa presents the story of our turbulent country in a fresh, readable narrative. Grippingly retold by leading...
“A Home on Vorster Street” is capturing history
An excuse not to return to practising law and a desire to capture her family’s history. That’s the reason why Razina Theba wrote A...
The Place Of Sara Baartman At UCT
The label “Hottentot Venus†continues to haunt our memory of Sara Baartman. This moniker, used in Jean Reaux’s posters to advertise the exhibit of...
#Roshnee55: Preserving history through photography
The Origins And 55-Year Pictorial History Of Roshnee (1967-2022) is a new book and pictorial history that will be released. Put together by former...
A response to Mamdani: the fight to decolonise starts with the...
Auwais Rafudeen reflects on the importance of indigenous languages in the decolonial project, and the internalised Western ideologies that hold back the attempts to...
7 poems commemorating the Women of the anti-apartheid struggle
On August 9 1956, thousands of women marched to the Union Buildings. They were marching against the apartheid pass laws. Led by Helen Joseph,...
The Colonial History Of Tea
In most households around the world, tea is a staple part of people's diet. It is the first thing you drink when you wake...
Nomvuyo Ngcelwane Tells The Story Of Black People In District Six
Nomvuyo Ngcelwane's book Sala Kahle District Six was first published in 1998. For the 20th anniversary of the book, publishing house Kwela Books have...
Mandela’s Pan-Africanism: In His Own Words
On 12 January 1962, seven months before his infamous life sentence that banished him to Robben Island, Nelson Mandela gave a speech at 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...
