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Letter to Zuma by David Goldblatt (Mail and Guardian), 25 November 2011

Letter to Zuma by David Goldblatt (Mail and Guardian), 25 November 2011

Highly acclaimed South African photographer David Goldblatt has decided to renounce a top South African award, in protes...

Unlike The Gambia’s Jammeh, Mugabe may not disappear, 22 November 2017, AZAD ESSA

Unlike The Gambia’s Jammeh, Mugabe may not disappear, 22 November 2017, AZAD ESSA

In the central lobby of the Banjul International Airport, a painting of Yahya Jammeh, the former president of The Gambia...

Remembering to think critically: Rick Turner 40 years on by Anthony Egan, 8 January 2018

Remembering to think critically: Rick Turner 40 years on by Anthony Egan, 8 January 2018

Forty years ago, in the early hours of January 8th 1978, a 36-year old political philosopher was shot dead in his Durban...

Mandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa

Mandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa

EASTERN CAPE - Nelson Mandela's grandson, Mandla Mandela, has called for an inquest into the deaths of anti-apartheid ac...

The Fragility of Existence by David Goldblatt (www.aperture.org), 6 February 2018

The Fragility of Existence by David Goldblatt (www.aperture.org), 6 February 2018

Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Gottlieb plays traditional Damara music at the funeral of Ouma Juliana ǂÛ-khui ǁAreses on...

Remembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013

Remembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013

With politicians showing unusual agreement among themselves and media focused on the "global" tribute to Nelson Mandela,...

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Revolutionary who kept the Spirit of Resistance alive by Shireen Hassim (The Conversation), 3 April 2018

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Revolutionary who kept the Spirit of Resistance alive by Shireen Hassim (The Conversation), 3 April 2018

No other woman – in life and after – occupies the place that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela does in South African politics. A...

Thoughts on Winnie Mandela by Enuga Reddy

Thoughts on Winnie Mandela by Enuga Reddy

Winnie Mandela and Fatima Meer were in prison together and became close friends. Winnie wrote an introduction to the boo...

The Moral Problem of Winnie Mandela by Paul Trewhela (Dailymaverick.com), 6 April 2018, South Africa

The Moral Problem of Winnie Mandela by Paul Trewhela (Dailymaverick.com), 6 April 2018, South Africa

First published by Spotlight.Africa Winnie Madikizela Mandela was not a safe pair of hands. True, life was far easier,...

`The struggle is my life`- Nelson Mandela press statement

`The struggle is my life`- Nelson Mandela press statement

The magnificent response to the call of the National Action Council for a three day strike and the wonderful work done b...

A story of a memorable photograph, and why it matters by J Brooks Spector, (Daily Maverick), 18 May 2018

A story of a memorable photograph, and why it matters by J Brooks Spector, (Daily Maverick), 18 May 2018

The death of Sam Nzima, the man who took the photograph that came to symbolise all that was wrong with apartheid and how...

Living in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983

Living in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983

I live at 6,000 feet in a society whirling, stamping, swaying with the force of revolutionary change. The vision is head...

Ottilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018

Ottilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018

Ottilie Abrahams was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable personalities of contemporary Namibia. She led through examp...

One hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018

One hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018

Last week fighter aircraft flying in formation to look like the figure "100" swooped down The Mall and over Buckingham P...

Keorapetse Kgositsile @poesiefestival berlin 2009

Keorapetse Kgositsile @poesiefestival berlin 2009

Keorapetse Kgositsile - Poet Laureate of South Africa

Keorapetse Kgositsile - Poet Laureate of South Africa

Lebo and Tumi interview Prof William Kgositsile Part 1

Lebo and Tumi interview Prof William Kgositsile Part 1

Lebo and Tumi interview Prof William Kgositsile Part 2

Lebo and Tumi interview Prof William Kgositsile Part 2

Rick Turner Photo Tribute

Rick Turner Photo Tribute

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa January 8 statement speech

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa January 8 statement speech

Remembering District Six

Hugh Masekela on "To Tell the Truth", 28 December 1964

Hugh Masekela on "To Tell the Truth", 28 December 1964

Thabo Mbeki reacts to Ramaphosa's presidency

Thabo Mbeki reacts to Ramaphosa's presidency

SANTU MOFOKENG “Chasing Shadows” 2011

SANTU MOFOKENG “Chasing Shadows” 2011

Mandela and De Klerk economic debate pre - 27 April 1994

Mandela and De Klerk economic debate pre - 27 April 1994

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Talks Frankly About Stompie Seipei

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Talks Frankly About Stompie Seipei

If Julius Malema Was A Woman He Would Be Winnie' Seth Mazibuko, Class of 76

If Julius Malema Was A Woman He Would Be Winnie' Seth Mazibuko, Class of 76

Winnie Madikizela Mandela And The House Number 802

Winnie Madikizela Mandela And The House Number 802

Have You Heard From Johannesburg by Connie Fields

Have You Heard From Johannesburg by Connie Fields

Life and times of the ANC Stalwart Billy Modise

Life and times of the ANC Stalwart Billy Modise

'La lutte contre l'Apartheid'

'La lutte contre l'Apartheid'

An evening with FW de Klerk – the full event by Alec Hogg (Biznews London Forum), 15 September 2017, (interview transcript)

It’s 28 years ago that FW became leader of the National Party and he won against Barend du Plessis. Has Barend du Plessi...

Timol Inquest: He was murdered but culprits are dead, court rules

A packed courtroom clapped after Judge Billy Mothle ruled that in 1971 the SACP’s Timol was pushed by members of the Sec...

Insurrections at Poetry Africa 2014

The legacy of Oliver Reginald Tambo

Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017

When trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela cancelled his appearance at the ...

Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017

On January 18, the world lost an icon. Only much of the world did not know it. South African-Jamaican writer Peter Abrah...

Third Mafika Gwala Annual Lecture 5 October 2017 Video

A Celebration of Queerness: Zanele Muholi receives a French knighthood

A Celebration of Queerness: Zanele Muholi receives a French knighthood

The French Embassy was due to present the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et de Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and L...

Chapter 13 A negotiated release by Denis Goldberg

Chapter 13 A negotiated release by Denis Goldberg

I had some idea that there were negotiations going on for my release and I had some sense that somehow my daughter was i...