• Isaac Otidi Amuke

COVID-19 re-affirmed journalism is a public good, yet as newsrooms collapse, journalism is in danger.

• Motheo Mofokeng

Drummer Asher Gamedze’s new album is a groundbreaking body of work in the musical trajectory of South African jazz.

• Suren Pillay

What does it mean when a community takes justice into its own hands? Revisiting the case of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) in Cape Town.

• Kiasha Naidoo

How race came to function as fuel to an exploitative economic system. Take the case of South Africa.

• Wamuwi Mbao

What continuities can be drawn from the murder of Ahmed Timol in apartheid Johannesburg to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis?

• Zubeida Jaffer

Ashley Kriel, murdered on 9 July 1987, embodied a kind of politics that people feel are missing from South African politics today: tireless commitment and sacrifice.

• William Shoki

As the South African ruling class wages a protracted war against the poor and working class, it grows comfortable with the idea that people have more or less accepted the status quo.

• Tammy Wilks
• Doseline Kiguru

The Nigerian scholar and poet, Harry Garuba, who died in February 2020, was a key figure in African Studies and teaching literature in South Africa.

• Xavier Livermon

Livermon’s new book explores how South African kwaito artists, Lebo Mathosa and Mandoza, pushed against the boundaries of gender and performance in their music.

• Marcel Paret

The politics of local resistance in urban South Africa: Evidence from three informal settlements.

• Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi

The painter Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi speaks to Drew Thompson about the evolution of her practice and how she locates herself in contemporary African art.

• Dariusz Dziewanski

Police violence, racism and the connections between Minneapolis in the United States and Cape Town, South Africa.

• Cara Moyer-Duncan

Media scholar Cara Moyer-Duncan wrote a book about postapartheid South Africa. Here she gives her book picks for our #ReadingList series.

• Benjamin Fogel

What exactly did South Africa’s government do with the time they gained through the two-month COVID-19 lockdown, except to brutalize its people?

• Paul T. Clarke

Why are South Africans not in the streets against police brutality like Americans are? It has less to do with the internet or middle classes. South Africans are captured by punitive logics. Break that.

• Francis Valentine Garikayi

What happened to the once universally accepted idea of healthcare for all?

• William Shoki

Police violence and the murder of black people in the United States have provoked outrage and protest around the world, including on the continent. But, why is there so little outrage over police violence in African countries?

• Jeanne-Marie Jackson

How do white South African writers confront the country's as well as their own pasts?

• Gautam Bhatia

Why courts should not become a country’s sole moral arbiter, how the coronavirus impacted judicial processes in India and South Africa, and more.

• Danelle van Zyl-Hermann

How did South Africa’s white working class—those close to the politicized black workforce—experience the reform of apartheid?