She was a trusted mentor to young militants whose 1976 uprising shaped the country forever.
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The song was written hot, as the news of the massacre reached the world. Its creators spanned the continent.
Organisations behind the wave of xenophobia use the language of participation, community and people’s power to justify marginalisation.
With a story as harrowing as the times he lived in, he was a singular voice in the country’s rich jazz history.
The transfer of township rental houses to inhabitants did not necessarily give families greater security. “Family houses” were frequently acquired by individuals.
Fear has important consequences for how people vote, what they spend their money on, who they consider to be part of their communities, and who they treat as outsiders.
Her passing shocked the nation and drew praise for her unique vocal powers and musical mentorship.
Curbing vaccine hesitancy is as much a matter of acknowledging its social, historical, and cultural roots as it is of addressing its clinical dimensions.
Soon after it was established in 1932 Orlando became a mecca of black urban culture and liberation politics.
The last great modernist of South African painting, he influenced a generation of black artists.
Jazz star Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse has turned 70. In 50 years, his music career has come to help define South African politics and popular culture.
The longer government dithers over how Eskom’s debt will be paid, the bigger the problem becomes. Whatever the decision, electricity customers and taxpayers will feel the pinch.
The Freedom Charter process was an imperfect but impressive attempt at capturing the will of the people and articulating an alternative vision to apartheid South Africa.
Young black men are often viewed through a criminal lens. A new book based on an 11-year-long study of adolescent men in a South African township upends the stereotypes.
Prison life is about routine: each day like the one before; each week like the one before it, so that the months and years blend into each other.
Most of the community radio stations operate on a survivalist level, and should be seen as struggling small, medium and micro enterprises.
No South African photographer leaves a more substantial legacy than Santu Mofokeng. He was adept at mapping interior worlds through haunting images of black life and, above all, his landscapes.
Late detection of breast cancer means treatment is often drastic and frightening for patients.
Government policies need to acknowledge individual agency as a mechanism for change, while reducing barriers to income-producing activities.
A clandestine system of transfer payment, with roots in apartheid-era boycotts, has developed into routine behaviour on which many family budgets now depend.
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