Browsing: South Africa

The World Bank has become the latest Western entity to attack South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment policy. The country’s affirmative-action initiative aims to address apartheid-era injustices…

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…

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…

A sombre mood engulfed the Namibian capital, Windhoek, on Friday, 28 February, 2025, as thousands gathered to give a final salute to the nation’s founding father…

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…

Pan-Africanist icon and Zimbabwe’s first post-independence leader, Robert Mugabe, was born on this day, 21 February, in 1924. The larger-than-life politician, who died of cancer at…

Economic Freedom Fighters (@effsouthafrica) President Julius Malema urged South Africa’s government to remain resolute in the face of US President Donald Trump’s administration threatening to cut…