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...
How Art Is A Tool For Social Justice
When we consider ways to initiate social change we frequently favour legislative changes and enactments. We think of political activism and agitation as mechanisms...
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...
Frantz Fanon: father of decolonisation
Frantz Omar Fanon, the psychiatrist, revolutionary and father of decolonisation, would be 92 years old. Born on the French colony Martinique, the fifth of...
Cape Town’s Bloody Gang Violence Is Inextricably Bound Up In Its...
COMMENT
When the apartheid government decided to evict people it called Coloured from Cape Town’s inner city, it set off a chain reaction that now...
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...
Out of Quatro: An Extract
Out of Quatro: From exile to exoneration is Luthando Dyasop’s story. The book is a story not only about Dyasop’s extraordinary life, but also...
Never forget those who were killed in the 1976 Soweto Uprising
Salim Vally reflects on the Soweto Uprising and those who lost their lives.
A partial list of the martyrs of the 1976 Uprising, the place...
The Forgotten Women Series Uncovers The Untold Histories Of Women
World history remembers certain people better than others. Our records are dominated by white men from the West who supposedly led, conquered, and created...
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...
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....
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....
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...
KhoiKhoi is the mother of all mother tongues says Jeffrey Oarasib
Jeffrey Oarasib has been elevating the preservation of the KhoiKhoi language through poetry, and rapping. He is a Khoi language reclamation artist and activist....
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...
#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....
