Browsing: South Africa

Miriam Makeba would have turned 93 today. An extraordinary musician and champion for human rights, her impact still reverberates around the world. Not only was she…

In light of the waves South Africa recently made by enacting a land reform law, we bring back this clip from South Africa’s ‘Big Debate.’ The…

Julius Malema, the leader of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, was born on this day in 1981. He has been a prominent feature of…

Accusations and counter-accusations of being apartheid-era agents, spies or collaborators have flown around the South African political landscape for decades. One of those who frequently faces…

US support for apartheid and settler-colonialism in South Africa goes as far back as its ‘constructive engagement’ policy that aimed to break South Africa’s international isolation…

For years, white supremacists have pushed the myth of a so-called ‘white g*nocide’ in South Africa to justify their racist paranoia and deflect from the real…

On 27 February 1978, South African freedom fighter and pan-African intellectual Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe succumbed to lung cancer. Despite dying at the relatively young age of…

Hundreds of white South Africans protested on 15 February outside the US embassy in Pretoria, calling on US President Donald Trump to look into their grievances.…

Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, recently disclosed that his ex-wife Maye’s father, Joshua N Haldeman, moved from Canada to South Africa in support of the apartheid…

South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), has added its voice to the standoff between its government and the administration of US President Donald…