The loss of “new” South African innocence
Moses Molelekwa, the brilliant South African pianist, composer and producer died by suicide on 13 February 2001. Florence Mtoba, his wife (also his manager) was found with him; she had been strangled.
South Africa
Why is South Africa such a violent society
The heinous, brutal rape and subsequent slaughtering of Anene Booysen in South Africa’s Western Cape province
How to deal with sexual violence in South Africa
It is not good enough to teach our sons not to rape. We need to teach our sons that a woman is not some “thing” placed on this planet just to satisfy whatever desire you have.
Future Radioheads
The Children’s Radio Foundation, which trains young radio reporters, invited pop musician Colin Greenwood to South Africa. Would the trip break with celebrity conventions?
The Story of a South African Farm
As of March 1 this year, the new base salary for farm workers in South Africa
Peter Beinart went to South Africa
Somebody tell Beinart support for Palestinians is not support for Muslims over Jews in the ruling party. It's for an occupied people over a repressive state.
Canada and the cover of whiteness
Canadian immigration - while discouraging Roma from applying for refugee status - welcomes the worst of Apartheid South Africa's perpetrators.
African Time
The web series, 'African Time,' focuses on the individual experiences of Africans living in the United States.
Where were the South African media at Marikana
The myth of Marikana as self-defense by the police and the company should be conclusively consigned to the dung heap of historical perjury.
Songs for Bafana
The second in our playlists for the national teams in the 2013 African Cup of Nations. This one is for the hosts, South Africa.
The Blue Sharks in Mandela Bay
What we learned from Day 8 of the 2013 African Cup of Nations.
What’s With The Empty Seats
South Africa is hosting the African Cup of Nations, but few locals go to the stadiums. People have more important things to do than watch football?
What we learned from day five of Afcon 2013
South Africa’s form has been dismal for a while now. Pre-Afcon, Elliot Ross concluded here that
Do South Africans care for Bafana Bafana
Three American students watch the African Cup of Nations at a South African restaurant in Brooklyn. Bafana Bafana played Cape Verde in a first round game.
The elephants seemed somewhat long in the tusk
What we learned from day four of the 2013 African Cup of Nations being held in South Africa.
Why the rhino is Newsmaker of the Year in South Africa
The divorce between social reality of post-apartheid South African and White South Africa.
The ‘Africa Rising’ Bandwagon
Al Jazeera falls for the fiction that business entrepreneurship and corporate capitalism will be Africa’s saving grace.
The Boys are doing it
South Africa's Bafana Bafana, the hosts, has to make it out of the group stage of the 2013 African Cup of Nations for this tournament to be deemed a success.
To hear musicians breathe
An ode to The Mahogany Room, the pre-eminent live jazz venue in Cape Town, South Africa.
Why does the BBC care what FW de Klerk thinks?
It's 2012 and FW de Klerk still thinks Apartheid had been beneficial to its black victims. Yet global media treats him like an analyst on South African politics.