• Sean Henry Jacobs

A good time to bring back this piece—first written in 2002—on the power of song to fuel political struggle.

• Sisonke Msimang

There is a lively, angry, often chaotic debate about the role and place of the father of the South African nation.

• Sindi-Leigh McBride

Poor reading scores among South African children highlights the need for decolonization in book publishing, teaching and policy implementation.

• Paul Vig

Media coverage of rhino poaching in Southern Africa not only fails to address white control over conservation, but also reinforces it.

• Zayaan Jappie

Rapper YoungstaCPT's headspace is shaped by Cape Town’s history.

• Ashwin Desai

If in India there has been an investment in myth of Mohandas Gandhi as a non-racial icon, in South Africa Gandhi also has his defenders.

• Anne Heffernan

The popular myth holds that most South African major resistance leaders come from its coastal regions. That's not been the case since the mid-1970s.

• William Shoki

The emphasis on identity and difference act to temper the radical potential of South Africa's youth. They need an education on class politics.

• Deon-Simphiwe Rakaku

The new comedy 'Matwetwe' hits all the right chords to tell a story about the current place and time of South African youth.

• Melissa Levin
• Andrea Meeson
• Stephanie J. Urdang

A new memoir by South African-American Stephanie Urdang offers a remarkable and feminist view of love, longing and revolutionary struggle.

• Michael Bueckert

The bases on which Israel's supporters believe it is subject to unfair criticism, are eerily similar to the rationalizations of apartheid South Africa's defenders in the 1970s and 80s.

• Sydelle Willow Smith

Sunshine Cinema is repurposing a tool of 20th century European colonial and neocolonial capitalist domination.

• Richard Ashby Wilson

The legacy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission twenty-one years later.

• Jon Fish Hodgson

The moral drama of the Israeli occupation plays out at a South African school.

• William Shoki

Economies are broken everywhere, but while the rest of the world considers the radical, South Africa resigns itself to the rational.

• Carli Coetzee

A radical feature on South Africa's literary calendar, Abantu celebrates black intellectual labor, and resists the tropes that marginalizes it.

• Duane Jethro

A documentary film about a black filmmaker and her struggles to make a film about Marike de Klerk.

• Kim M. Reynolds

Stand-up comedy, especially black stand-up, and the political in South Africa.

• Harris Dousemetzis

Apartheid propaganda, white media and Afrikaner nationalists painted Verwoerd's killer as crazy, but Dimitri Tsafendas was a committed political activist.

• Kammila Naidoo

The family is the site of extremely violent incidents in South African society—particularly involving women and children. What can the state do?