The thing that looms largest in South Africa's future is South Africa's past - most especially the nearly five decades of division and conflict at ...

Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known. At first glance, it might not look ...

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An inspirational story of one girl who changed the minds of her elders, reformed traditions from the inside, and is creating a better future for gi...

On 28 June 1984 a parcel bomb sent by the apartheid security police exploded in an apartment building in Lubango, Angola, killing 36-year-old Jeane...

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After decades of imperfect secularism, presided over by an often corrupt Congress establishment, Nehru's diverse republic has yielded to Hindu nati...

South Africa’s general election of 2024 saw the African National Congress losing its majority at the national level for the first time since the ar...

There has been a continuous outcry about the government failing to deliver services to its citizens. The author draws attention to how the governme...

Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in t...

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After state capture, South Africa is f*cked and not in a good place. The system is down so how do we reboot? We aren’t the first country to find it...

This book is Professor Makgoba’s reflection of transformation experience in South Africa for over 29 years since his return. It was motivated by th...

Liberation Diaries is a powerful and spirited collection of essays from some of South Africa’s most distinctive thinkers on the country’s 30 years ...

A short, urgent book that sorts the fact from the fiction about Xi Jinping - one of the world's most powerful political leaders - to truly understa...

Why do so many South Africans prefer taking the law into their own hands to relying on the police? Why are those who do so often cheered or sympath...

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The mining industry continues to be at the forefront of colonial dispossession around the world. It controls information about its intrinsic costs ...

Tipping Point raises critical questions about South Africa’s political and socioeconomic landscape today and whether the 2024 elections are likely ...

Contesting one’s place remains central to confronting the lingering impact of colonisation and apartheid, emerging as it does out of the intermingl...

‘By the early evening, the irresolute and weakened Ramaphosa slate left no one unscathed – not Mabuyane, not Lamola, not the Mkhize camp. The Ramap...

Neurodiversity is on the rise. Awareness and diagnoses have exploded in recent years, but we are still missing a wider understanding of how we got ...