• Maya Bhardwaj

Africa’s largest arms trader is trying to obscure its ties with apartheid Israel, and its connections to other autocratic regimes.

• Ilham Rawoot

Although the South African government is one of the most vocal supporters of the Palestinian cause, its actions tell a different story.

• Lee Nxumalo

Something’s different about the reaction to South Africa’s victory at the 2023 Rugby World Cup, its fourth title.

• Faeeza Ballim

What does the history of South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, tell us about the apartheid and post-apartheid state?

• Savo Heleta

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.

• Ilham Rawoot

In South Africa, white climate groups are detached from broader struggles for economic justice and equality.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Gladys Nzimande-Tsolo, who died on 27 September 2023, was a South African freedom fighter. Why has she been forgotten?

• Kebotlhale Motseothata

How 'Dawn' magazine illustrates the significant role women played in South Africa’s armed struggle against apartheid.

• Simone Cupido

AirBnb is making the idea of a liveable, walkable city unattainable, while deepening inequality and decimating local industries.

• Nimi Hoffmann

In the context of climate apartheid, a new scramble for resources, and debt crises, the Global South must find another way to be human.

• Keith Mundangepfupfu

Although visibility is important, contemporary queer African literature reveals how easily representation privileges narratives of the resourceful and upwardly mobile.

• Trevor Sacks

The predatory tech giant is at the center of a heritage site land grab, pitting indigenous and environmental activists against city authorities.

• Claire-Anne Lester

In response to the Johannesburg fire disaster, the South African government has announced a ‘politically free’ commission of inquiry. But there is no such thing.

• Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse

In her new biography of South African writer Lauretta Ngcobo, Barbara Boswell shows how the publishing industry historically excluded Black women, and how they wrote in spite of that.

• Jill E. Kelly

That South African political parties across the spectrum were quick to venerate the politician and Zulu prince Mangosutho Buthelezi, who died last week, demonstrates that the country is still attached to Bantustan ideology.

• Gopolang Botlhokwane

By questioning black masculinity in post-apartheid South Africa, Thando Mgqolozana became one of the most impactful writers of his time. But then he got accused of the same thing he opposed.

• Siyabulela Mama
• Antony Martel

The city of Gqeberha in South Africa is an example of how water is increasingly becoming a commodified resource, benefiting the powerful and depriving everyone else.

• Asher Gamedze

Asher Gamedze on his new single ‘Wynter Time,' and the struggle of oppressed peoples against dispossession, exploitation and alienation.

• Nkanyiso Ngqulunga

In their debut EP, the Johannesburg-based experimental jazz group iPhupho L’ka Biko offer a message of hope, resilience and solidarity while drawing from South Africa’s black jazz heritage.

• Nombuso Mathibela

During apartheid, literary magazine 'Staffrider' flourished from its ability to represent multiple social visions. However, it struggled to achieve the same in democratic South Africa.