• Janet Munakamwe

From Operation Fiela to Operation Dudula, xenophobia in South Africa is bent on protecting the interests of politicians.

• Zachary Levenson

The historian Premesh Lalu’s film about an apartheid-era cinema on the Cape Flats also offers a glimpse of a future beyond racism for South Africa.

• Tom Slater

The University of Edinburgh will award an honorary doctorate to Joe Schaffers, a working-class educator from Cape Town, South Africa. It will be a new benchmark for this tradition.

• William Shoki

Politics is about effectiveness, and casting youth as a political subject (rather than simply a demographic), is a bad way to do politics.

• Axolile Notywala

Cape Town-based activist Axolile Notywala wants to bring people from different backgrounds together to build a movement on what it means to be free in South Africa.

• Chris Webb

The Rise and Fall of National Wake, South Africa’s first multiracial punk band at the height of apartheid, that sang about state violence and political freedoms.

• Kate Dawson

Platinum holds promise for a net-zero future. But the promise of platinum cannot be founded on the broken promises endured by those who live in its spaces of extraction.

• Tarminder Kaur

Race, class and the story of struggle and sacrifice in the making of South Africa’s next generation of track and field athletes.

• Megan Robertson

A new book presents an empirical challenge to the myth of South Africa as the “pink capital” of Africa and contributes to building an archive of queer, African, and religious narratives.

• Wamuwi Mbao

The University of Stellenbosch in South Africa treats racism as an issue that must be soft-soaped to avoid alienating white people.

• The Amandla Editorial Collective

Why South Africa needs to democratize its labor movement.

• Chérif Keïta

There is a remarkable connection between Mali and South Africa, dating back to the liberation struggle, and actively encouraged by the author’s work.

• Jane Duncan

The cultural boycott of Russia turns to the flawed precedent of apartheid South Africa for inspiration, while ignoring the much more carefully considered boycott of official Israeli culture by the BDS Movement.

• Desiree Lewis

The first book collection dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist perspectives has seen the light. One of the editors breaks down the content.

• Benjamin H. Bradlow

Marcel Paret’s book, "Fragmented Militancy: Precarious Resistance in South Africa after Racial Inclusion," tries to make sense of politics in South African urban informal settlements.

• Liani Maasdorp

If committed filmmakers want to reach and influence more people, and counter fake news, impact producing may help get us there.

• Tsogo Kupa

The legacy of soap operas and state of television in South Africa. Now it is being exported to streaming services like Netflix for everyone everywhere to see.

• Hilary Lynd

South African discourse about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continually references Soviet support for the exiled ANC. But the past is more complicated than official Russian and South African statements suggest.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

David Samaai was the first black (and coloured) South African to play at Wimbledon in 1949. He was 21 years old. He did so before the Americans, Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe.

• Niall Reddy

With the globe-spanning rise of right-wing populism, there may be good reason to fear for South Africa’s fledgling democracy.