Politics & Society

National and Provincial Elections - 2024 - South Africa

Introduction President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the new members of the National Executive, for the seventh administr...

South Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured

 SOUTH AFRICA NEEDS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY ON 16 NOVEMBER TO ACKNOWLEDGE ITS INDENTURED LABOUR HERITAGEBy Brij Mah...

Indentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa by Dr Brij Maharaj

16 November 2023, marks the 163rd anniversary of the arrival in South Africa of indentured labourers from India. From th...

Aziz Pahad: Rest in peace by David Kenvyn

I first met Aziz when I was a student at the London School of Economics.   I met him through my involvement in...

Mangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions

Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, who has died, was a history maker. He was born on 27 August 1928 into a tumultuous glo...

Mangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history

Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi played a prominent role in South African politics for almost half a century. He wa...

Omar Badsha - Awards, Publications and Exhibitions Timeline

The Seriti Commission

Background Terry Crawford-Brown petitioned the Constitutional Court in 2011 to compel former president Jacob Zuma to ...

Socialism

Socialism is a political and economic ideology aiming to create a society where all members distribute resources and wea...

Brazil - Russia - India - China - South Africa (BRICS)

BRICS is an acronym that refers to the grouping of five major emerging economies in the world: Brazil, Russia, India, Ch...

A Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)

Following on from Part 1, this article seeks to analyse some of the historical and present dynamics bedevilling ESKOM. O...

A Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)

This short history of Electrical Supply Commission (ESKOM) aims to provide an overview of the history of the power utili...

A brief history of domestic service in South Africa

Colonial History of Domestic Work Since slaves were used as domestic servants in the settler colony from the middle t...

Vlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad

Vlakplaas is the name of an undercover counterinsurgency division of the apartheid police that operated in the 1980s. Vl...

The Arniston

​The Arniston was built on the River Thames, England in 1794. It was a three-decked and three-masted British East Indiam...