• Sydelle Willow Smith

White South Africans rarely look in the proverbial mirror to reflect on where they come from and how those histories shape their current realities.

• William Shoki

When our political parties only have recourse to the realm of identity and culture, it is a smokescreen for their lack of political legitimacy and programmatic content. It is cynically unpolitical, and it’s all bullshit.

• Sohela Surajpal

We need to reimagine our conceptions of feminist justice in South Africa: Putting people in cages is not liberation.

• Marian Burchardt

Some churches in South Africa have become embroiled with criminal economies.

• Shireen Hassim

Bill Freund was a Marxist historian in method, attentive to political economy and to the material underpinnings of power, while retaining a critical distance to Marxism.

• Phethani Madzivhandila

On the other side of the pandemic, we must strengthen and build strong working-class movements to challenge imperialism and neocolonialism.

• Anthony Johnson

When considering Herman Mashaba’s new political plans, the South African public must reckon with the former mayor of Johannesburg's actual record.

• Siyabulela Mama
• Ayanda Kota
• Khokhoma Motsi

Three activists from the Assembly of the Unemployed talk to us about the challenges facing working-class communities in South Africa.

• Kim Gurney

How do we deal with the unfinished business of the past? Cape Town has a surprisingly poetic answer.

• Isaac Otidi Amuke

COVID-19 re-affirmed journalism is a public good, yet as newsrooms collapse, journalism is in danger.

• Motheo Mofokeng

Drummer Asher Gamedze’s new album is a groundbreaking body of work in the musical trajectory of South African jazz.

• Suren Pillay

What does it mean when a community takes justice into its own hands? Revisiting the case of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) in Cape Town.

• Kiasha Naidoo

How race came to function as fuel to an exploitative economic system. Take the case of South Africa.

• Wamuwi Mbao

What continuities can be drawn from the murder of Ahmed Timol in apartheid Johannesburg to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis?

• Zubeida Jaffer

Ashley Kriel, murdered on 9 July 1987, embodied a kind of politics that people feel are missing from South African politics today: tireless commitment and sacrifice.

• William Shoki

As the South African ruling class wages a protracted war against the poor and working class, it grows comfortable with the idea that people have more or less accepted the status quo.

• Tammy Wilks
• Doseline Kiguru

The Nigerian scholar and poet, Harry Garuba, who died in February 2020, was a key figure in African Studies and teaching literature in South Africa.

• Xavier Livermon

Livermon’s new book explores how South African kwaito artists, Lebo Mathosa and Mandoza, pushed against the boundaries of gender and performance in their music.

• Marcel Paret

The politics of local resistance in urban South Africa: Evidence from three informal settlements.

• Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi

The painter Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi speaks to Drew Thompson about the evolution of her practice and how she locates herself in contemporary African art.