Category: Opinion

Sanya Osha, University of Cape Town The mortal fight against apartheid is usually cast in terms of good versus evil, a simple schism in which there are heroes and villains, … Read More

Gwen Ansell, University of Pretoria Sophie Mgcina, composer, educationist and performer, gazes out from the page, uncompromising and direct. She’s just swung around from the piano to face us; behind … Read More

Shannon Morreira, University of Cape Town and Tamuka Chekero, University of Cape Town The dominant story of migration in South Africa is that of xenophobia. The subject is regularly in … Read More

Nicholas Westcott, SOAS, University of London Far from being swift, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine now looks likely to become a long-running war of attrition. It will therefore have an accumulating, … Read More

Kenneth Toah Nsah, Aarhus University The African continent is responsible for only 2–3% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions from energy and industrial sources. But it’s alarmingly suffering from the … Read More

Christi van der Westhuizen, Nelson Mandela University In his latest book sociologist Professor Roger Southall, a prolific researcher who has written extensively about political dynamics in Southern Africa, avoids the … Read More

Anthea Garman, Rhodes University When South African writer Antjie Krog was just 17, she wrote a poem for her school magazine which was shocking enough to upset Kroonstad High’s parents. … Read More