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The famous writer turns 70 this year. She is driven by how South Africans see and hear one another.
Abundantly talented and flawed, apartheid-era writer Can Themba wasn’t afraid to put his body on the line for a story.
Freedom Day needs to be used by South Africans to renew their commitment to correcting their country’s faults.
When a patriarchal society is combined with a history of colonialism, women in that country are at heightened risk of gender-based violence.
The South African Khoe-San communities are no strangers to exploitative research. One research team is trying to provide genetic ancestry results to community members. But they still face many challenges.
Inequality in organisations is difficult to shift because they are entrenched by the status quo.
Scientists themselves seemed to be unaware that their lack of comment on the absurdity of apartheid was a statement in itself.
Is history really a triumphant march of progress? It depends on your point of view.
The former secretary-general of the Commonwealth represents the true essence of a public intellectual and leader; his sense of duty defines his legacy.
Makeba, who would have turned 90 on 4 March 2022, was a hugely influential artist and an icon of African liberation and identity.
The death of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2021 has triggered renewed frustrations over the elusiveness of a “new” South Africa.
The last great modernist of South African painting, he influenced a generation of black artists.
The master of abstract art proved that black ‘township artists’ from South Africa could become leaders of international styles.
Woven throughout the backstories of these characters is the loss of loved ones, lack of resources and the desperation to get out of economic hardship.
A strategic partnership that is mutually rewarding and beneficial between Nigeria and South Africa should be the aim of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to Nigeria.
This history covers twelve decades, from the surrender of Boer guerrillas in the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1902 to the July 2021 looting spree and violence.
The saxophone legend played much more than jazz - he delighted in layering styles and genres.
International borders were negotiable for the right price. What residents of former ‘homelands’ and of Lesotho and eSwatini have in common now are limited government services and few job prospects.
FW de Klerk as National Party conservative was paradoxically the right leader at the right time to relinquish white minority rule.
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