• William Shoki

On The Africa Is a Country Podcast: Israel's entanglement in a strike by South African dairy workers, and its campaign to acquire accreditation at the African Union.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

On the South African-born anthropologist John Comaroff and the political economy of silence in academia.

• Boima Tucker

On AIAC Radio, Folarin Ajibade (@folarinistired) was inspired enough by Xavier Livermon's book "Kwaito Bodies" to make a mix.

• Christopher J. Lee

Robert Vinson's biography of Albert Luthuli hints at how liberation histories might be reframed to better address the problems of the present.

• William Shoki

South Africa's labor movement is in crisis. How can it rebuild? We try to answer that question with Karl Cloete this week on AIAC Talk.

• Paul Veart

What if the social media conditions of 2021 existed in 1981? A group of New Zealand writers tweeted the damned 1981 Springbok rugby tour as if it was happening now.

• The Amandla Editorial Collective

Different factions of South Africa's ruling elite are implicated in looting and profiting from the state. South Africans should take an attitude of a plague on both their houses.

• William Shoki

In South Africa, the old endures and the new is nowhere to be seen. What is to be done? Public intellectual Steven Friedman helps us make sense.

• The Fees Must Fall Collective

Oupa Lehulere, revolutionary teacher and mentor, died on November 29. His approach to theoretical study and struggle was the same: there are no shortcuts.

• Ryan Brunette

Don’t get to excited by the local election results in South Africa. The party system is fragmenting, but old apartheid divides persist.

• Anthony Johnson

The film, 'We are Zama Zama,' about illegal miners in South Africa, is a social commentary on the failures of post-colonial liberal democracies in Southern Africa.

• Liam Brickhill

The impressive debut album of the Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O marks the arrival of a unique genius in post post-apartheid South African jazz.

• William Shoki

After unrest in July and municipal elections in November, it's clear South Africa is in the midst of a serious social, economic and political crisis. What are the roots of it? Listen to this episode of AIAC Talk to find out.

• Andile Zulu

In both the rebuke and lionization of F.W. De Klerk, who recently died, there is an attempt to squeeze power into the zone of emotional sentiment.

• Claire Raga
• Savo Heleta

In a country like South Africa where government trust is low, gangsters and criminals who provide assistance to their communities are seen as the people’s champions.

• Youlendree Appasamy

Xenophobia and questions of belonging haunt Indian South Africans. What does that mean for solidarity with Black South Africans?

• Caroline Velli

We have to become more open to the possibility that what our society needs is not better policing, but less. And ultimately no policing at all.

• Ling Sheperd

The writer, from Cape Town, reflects on the life of her working class father, who like her friends' fathers worked tough jobs for low pay and hid his vulnerabilities.

• Paul T. Clarke

A new book on policing in South Africa wants to go beyond the usual call for reform. But adapting literature tuned for reform to the task of abolition is a difficult needle to thread.

• William Shoki

This week's episode of AIAC Talk is a replay of the launch of the latest issue of Amandla! magazine, a South African publication advancing radical left perspectives for change.