Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed departments on Tuesday to halt appointments of civilian staff to tenured positions at U.S. military service academies and develop hiring plans that prioritiz…

A new report written by mining historian Duncan Money for Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) presents a compelling challenge to Anglo American's position that it is not responsible for the devastating lead pollution that blights the Zambian town of Kabwe.Kabwe, home to more than 300,000 people, is one of the world's most polluted towns. It grew in close proximity to the Broken Hill lead and zinc mine and smelter, which began extraction in 1904 and closed in 1994.Anglo American denies responsibility for the pollution, claiming it was only ever involved as an indirect minority shareholder that provided certain technical services to the mine. It claims it at no stage owned or operated the mine.Money found internal company records in a Zambian archive that appear to show that the mine operated as a direct subsidiary of Anglo American, taking orders directly from the then Johannesburg-based miner.

Conversation is not capitulation.

Many thousands of boys and men in Lesotho take up the vital profession of herding but have to give up their education. A small network of schools on a shoestring budget is teaching them the ABCs.

Lesotho’s textile and apparel sector, which is regarded as the country's largest private employer has been handed fresh certainty after the United States (US) extended the African Growth and Opportuni...

Chris Hani is remembered as the fearless guerrilla commander, communist leader and revolutionary whose assassination changed the course of South African

South Africa’s history shows that anti-immigrant violence is neither an aberration nor the country’s only possible path.

Published in South African Historical Journal (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Three months after the Board of Trustees abolished the faculty senate and gave itself curricular control, faculty are back on campus and making their disapproval known.

Claim relating to 1960 attack on hundreds of protesters part of wave of litigation over apartheid crimes in South Africa

There is limited research on rural-serving postsecondary institutions. However, these institutions are essential to the educational opportunities of rural students and the vitality of rural communitie...

John Iliffe was interested in evidence and interpretation, not theoretical abstraction.

Poems Rethabile Likes publishes a poem a day

As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.

YouTube video by Ladysmith Black Mambazo

HRB attended the launch of Brooks Marmon's Edson Sithole: Law, Liberation and the Cost of Dissent, an important and unique collection of selected writings by Edson Sithole, the Zimbabwean liberation struggle hero who disappeared without (official) trace on October 15, 1975, aged 40. Sithole was the second Black African, after Herbert Chitepo, to be admitted to the bar in Rhodesia.