The amapiano wars
Between the Grammys and AFCON semi-final, it's been a big week for the rivalry between Nigeria and South Africa.
Between the Grammys and AFCON semi-final, it's been a big week for the rivalry between Nigeria and South Africa.
Africa Is a Country is proud to present a partnership with the popular South African podcast Just Us Under a Tree. On this episode, the Just Us crew analyze South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ.
Peter Magubane was one of South Africa’s foremost resistance photojournalists, exposing the world to the cruel spectacle of the apartheid regime.
South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel is the latest example of its ability to act as a normative superpower, exceeding even the great powers in shaping global moral discourse.
South Africa is asking the International Court of Justice to declare that in its war against Gaza, Israel has breached its obligations under the Genocide Convention.
The release of 'Renaissance' in Israel has spelled the end of informed indifference when it comes to Beyoncé and other stars who choose to do business with the apartheid regime.
Load-shedding, deepening privatization, and unaffordable electricity makes it difficult to imagine a pivot away from the neoliberal approach to South Africa’s climate crisis.
In the 1970s, Kissinger believed that the liberation of southern Africa from white-minority rule represented a Cold War setback.
In 1987, a band led by a group of South African Jewish brothers released a song against apartheid repression. Today, its lyrics speak to conditions in Palestine as well.
It is often imagined that world opinion was always united in its opposition to apartheid in South Africa—it wasn’t. Today, global indifference to Palestine is changing too.
Africa’s largest arms trader is trying to obscure its ties with apartheid Israel, and its connections to other autocratic regimes.
Although the South African government is one of the most vocal supporters of the Palestinian cause, its actions tell a different story.
Something’s different about the reaction to South Africa’s victory at the 2023 Rugby World Cup, its fourth title.
What does the history of South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, tell us about the apartheid and post-apartheid state?
South Africans have to demand an academic boycott of Israel, in the same way much of the Global South boycotted apartheid South Africa’s universities.
In South Africa, white climate groups are detached from broader struggles for economic justice and equality.
Gladys Nzimande-Tsolo, who died on 27 September 2023, was a South African freedom fighter. Why has she been forgotten?
How 'Dawn' magazine illustrates the significant role women played in South Africa’s armed struggle against apartheid.
AirBnb is making the idea of a liveable, walkable city unattainable, while deepening inequality and decimating local industries.
In the context of climate apartheid, a new scramble for resources, and debt crises, the Global South must find another way to be human.