Ian Berry’s photographs of the Sharpeville massacre provided evidence of a crime against humanity.
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It’s 30 years since the All Blacks last played a test in South Africa – and only 56 years since Māori and Pacific players were first allowed to tour there.
Not even the #MeToo movement and a reckoning with sexual abuse could rupture the sound-proof walls of South African classical music.
Research shows that market-based land reform in South Africa since 1994 has often benefited white farmers and preserved inequality instead of reducing it.
A new book, Muskism, sheds light on Elon Musk’s mission to remake the world in his image – while the rest of us haven’t even been consulted.
If AI is not designed properly, inequalities can reappear in new, digital forms.
In exile, he imagined a different Africa in his music, while being exposed to new realities abroad.
She was a trusted mentor to young militants whose 1976 uprising shaped the country forever.
The song was written hot, as the news of the massacre reached the world. Its creators spanned the continent.
The medium’s power to shape public opinion and promote social cohesion remains significant.
The vote to have death by hanging as the default for Palestinians guilty of killing Israelis represents the further entrenchment of a two-tier legal system.
Her poem I’ve Come to Take You Home was written into French law. It deals with the repatriation of the remains of Sarah Baartman.
The qualities forged by his intense involvement in the struggle for democratic practices shaped his approach to conflict and strife, wherever it occurred.
A new book explores the country’s history, from world famous rock art to colonial genocide and the struggle for freedom.
A beautifully written book that shows why nostalgia is not to be trusted.
The presence of a warship can be the most tangible and visible sign of bilateral and multilateral friendships.
South Africa’s preference for dialogue has become harder to sustain in a polarised world.
Performance in museums can be one way that an interest in history, and in turn wider societal issues, is cultivated from a young age.
Museveni came to power with the sense that violence is critical to politics, and especially critical to liberation politics.
South Africa needs to track whether beneficiaries of land reform policies are participating in the country’s thriving wildlife economy.
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