A Home on Vorster Street: An Extract
In A Home on Vorster Street, Razina Theba witnesses the ebb and flow of a tight-knit neighbourhood trying to survive the forces of apartheid....
A change is going to come: on the right to peaceful...
A lot has been said recently about the right to protest and the right to assembly, but what irks me is how participants who...
Does Youth Day need to return to its political origins?
For government's official celebrations of Youth Day this year, President Jacob will address young people in Ventersdorp in the North West, on the subject...
A brutal time when police were heroes, not villains
Police brutality is once again in the spotlight after SA rugby player, Lindani Myeni, was gunned down by US police. Angelo Louw, who recently...
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...
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...
Those who are against decolonisation are white supremacists
We are living in a society that is deeply divided on racial issues, decolonisation being one of them. The reality of the decolonisation debate,...
Cyril Ramaphosa Should Listen To Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
As Ramaphosa navigates the racial, social, and economic traps that South Africa finds itself in after the disaster of the Zuma years, he would...
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...
“In The Infrastructure And The Law, There Is Apartheid Towards The...
The year 2018 marks 70 years since the declaration of the state of Israel and the horrendous acts it committed to cement its territorial...
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...
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...
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...
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...
#Biko40 reminds us the police are still brutal
On 12 September, South Africans commemorate 40 years since the death of Bantu Stephen Biko, anti-apartheid activist and founder of the Black Consciousness Movement....
The President’s Keepers and apartheid-era silencing tactics
Following the publication of Jacques Pauw’s The President’s Keepers, the State Security Agency (SSA) sent a cease-and-desist letter to the publishers of the book...
