Defend Truth

The ANC must cleanse itself and reimagine Mandela’s vision of non-racialism, inclusion and democracy

Max and Audrey Coleman
22 Nov

In Black and White: South African film producer Anant Singh flashes back to his life in movies

Rebecca Pitt
18 Nov

The complex legacy of FW de Klerk, the South African president who straddled apartheid and democracy

J Brooks Spector
11 Nov

Apartheid-era’s last president, FW de Klerk, was a man at war with his history

Ray Hartley
11 Nov

Mixed response in South Africa to death of FW de Klerk

Karabo Mafolo
11 Nov

FW de Klerk — apartheid’s last president — dies at 85

Karabo Mafolo and Staff Writer
11 Nov

FW de Klerk (1936 – 2021): the last apartheid president was driven by pragmatism, not idealism

Christi van der Westhuizen
11 Nov

OR Tambo, an ANC leader who understood every war ends with the antagonists sitting around a table

Peter Hain
28 Oct

Brandfort: Place of hollow forgetting and shallow remembering 

Marianne Thamm
10 Oct

‘I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t’: The global legacy of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

Piyushi Kotecha
06 Oct

Poli Poli: The rise of rebellion and the transition from fighting talk and peaceful resistance into armed struggle

Barbara Masekela
03 Oct

Mac Maharaj and Z Pallo Jordan add the missing pieces to South Africa’s history in new book

Karabo Mafolo
29 Sep

Mandela’s secret meetings revealed in Breakthrough by Mac Maharaj and Z Pallo Jordan

The Reading List
20 Sep

Zondo Commission: Ramaphosa should have had the courage of his convictions and told the whole truth

Jo-Mangaliso Mdhlela
04 Sep

July unrest shattered our ‘rainbow nation’ illusion — now we must rebuild unity and diversity through acts of ubuntu

Saurabh Sinha and Letlhokwa Mpedi
17 Aug

Barack Obama’s lessons from Nelson Mandela: Have faith in the Constitution and in the youth of today

John Stremlau
01 Aug

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Men should be made to read women’s stories

Karin Schimke
30 Jul

As the Refugee Convention turns 70, the plight of millions of Africans highlights the challenges ahead

Valentin Tapsoba
28 Jul

Looting and Lexicons: A new dictionary for South Africa

Imraan Coovadia
19 Jul

Sabotage and violence in Zuma backlash awakens spirit of Mandela as thousands come out to rebuild

Marianne Thamm
16 Jul

Mandela’s podiatrist-turned-media ‘mogul’ decouples himself from reality

Shaun de Waal
30 Jun