• Tsogo Kupa

For this group, politics is often framed as a series of never-ending discussions about social justice: The experience from South Africa.

• William Shoki

The question is not how, or where, or when neoliberalism will end, but if it will, and what the left will do about it. The case of South Africa is instructive.

• Stephanie J. Urdang

Urdang reflects her long friendship with fellow political exile Jennifer Davis, the anti-apartheid activist and changemaker.

• William Shoki

A resurgent conspiracy theory that Nelson Mandela died in 1985 reveals the growing hopelessness in South Africa that rampant inequality is irreversible.

• William Shoki

South Africa introduces a new law which allows traditional leaders along with third parties to decide for communities, without their consent.

• Carilee Osborne
• Michael Nassen Smith

Turok, who died at 92, was committed to fighting for the ideals of the left in South Africa. It is worth reviewing what his contribution to these ideals were in the final chapter of his life.

• Christopher J. Lee

Nthikeng Mohlele’s novel Small Things (2013) provides a rejoinder to J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999), depicting a black man’s perspective on the failures of South Africa’s transition.

• Phindi Mnyaka

One of the few books about photography to come out of the continent and where the majority of contributors are African and work on the continent.

• Atiyyah Khan

During Christmas 1980, Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba performed at a concert in Lesotho that deeply challenged and disturbed South Africa’s apartheid regime. The record of that concert is being reissued.

• Brindley J. Fortuin

No child should choose between having food, love, and a roof over their head or being their full self.

• Prexy Nesbitt

Historian Peter Cole’s book on dockworkers in apartheid South Africa and San Francisco gets beyond slogans to vital historical truths.

• Daniel Steyn

South African film production house kykNET's dominance skews storytelling on the country's screens.

• Myra Ann Houser

Davis, who died at 84 on October 15th, was a prominent leader of the anti-apartheid movement in the US and an analytical thinker and visionary.

• Nathan Yardy

While Sisulu's political career is less celebrated than Nelson Mandela, it was as remarkable.

• Ari Sitas

The world is out of joint and Immanuel Wallerstein, one of its great public intellectuals, has left us—albeit with tools to battle the dying kicks of capitalism.

• Sisonke Msimang

Reflecting on white joy, black celebration, and the meaning of the Springbok win at the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

• Derek Charles Catsam

We should not let the achievements of a multiracial Springbok rugby team, led by its first black captain, be commodified and commercialized in the service of neoliberalism.

• Daniel Linde

The late Springbok rugby wing's legacy needs to be sustained, and the hope that he represented is perhaps more critical than ever.

• Carilee Osborne
• Bruce Baigrie

It's going take a fully democratic anti-capitalist movement to fight climate change. The case of South Africa shows how long we have to go.

• Tim Zulauf

A reflection—by one of the group’s artists—on a Swiss-South African art project exploring eviction and extraction.