• Anneke Rautenbach

Edward Said once said of the usefulness of exile for intellectual work: it involves adopting “a spirit of opposition, rather than accommodation.” James Baldwin and Sisonke Msimang took it to heart.

• Mark Hunter

Constant attention to segregation in formerly white South African schools limits our understanding of how race works in the school system.

• Robert Trent Vinson

Albert Luthuli was ANC President when South Africa's biggest liberation movement turned to armed struggle. He's been the subject of much conjecture. What did he actually think about political violence?

• Sindiso Mnisi Weeks

Land reform in South Africa has to not only tackle racial inequalities of ownership, but also the power of chiefs and the Zulu royal family.

• Gabeba Baderoon

There is a seamless transition in how the South African state in tandem with capital, for 400 years utilize prisons to control black bodies.

• Kenichi Serino

Fees Must Fall (#FMF) brought student activism at South Africa's elite universities into the global media spotlight. A new documentary zooms in on the case of Wits in Johannesburg.

• Benjamin Talton

The Mandelas and Africa's place in African American politics and popular culture.

• Emile Engel

Patricia De Lille, one of South Africa's most popular post-apartheid politicians, claims she tried to redress spatial apartheid in Cape Town, but the legacy of her seven year run as mayor is one of violent forced removals and a refusal to upgrade informal settlements.

• Wahbie Long

The major problem with the term "decolonization" is its status as empty signifier, argues South African psychologist Wahbie Long.

• Ross Truscott

Media studies scholar Sharon Sliwinski asks whether dreaming can be recast as a vital form of resistance to political violence. A review of her book.

• Michael Nassen Smith

Any deviation from economic orthodoxy in South Africa is made coterminous with the most extreme cases, like Zimbabwe and Venezuela.

• Savo Heleta

The UN and South Africa's Statistics Service are exaggerating immigrant numbers and playing with people's lives in South Africa.

• Sindi-Leigh McBride

In a world of fake news, shallow analysis and torrid pontificating, combining empirical evidence with emotive expression, is what give Roy's essays legs.

• Chris Webb

Many will read Sisonke Msimang's new memoir for its musings on exile and home, but it is also a political telling of the complicated South African transition.

• Jeanne Boyat

When black students at an elite school in South Africa's capital protested over how teachers treated them over their hair, everyone noticed. It's not the same in township schools.

• Nicholas Grant

In his writings and speeches, Nelson Mandela exposed the links between American power, capitalism and racism.

• Russell Grinker

How can South Africa's biggest trade union federation, Cosatu, remain relevant in the face of declining membership and a failing formal economy?

• Scott Remer

American liberals’ continued refusal to engage seriously with the global collapse of the postwar liberal order.

• Meghan Healy-Clancy
• Jill E. Kelly

Historians have surprisingly said little about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, before or since her April 2018 passing.

• Michael Bueckert

South Africa's white nationalists are finally in the spotlight, thanks to Donald Trump. Nobody likes what they see.