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On June 30, as anti-immigrant marches began across Johannesburg, a few hundred men set out from a decaying compound in Diepkloof, Soweto, carrying sticks and knobkerries. At their head was…

Chigumadzi agrees with Shoki that South Africa’s anti-immigrant politics channels material deprivation toward other, foreign, Black Africans, who are blamed for a crisis they did not create, but she a...

The printing house is battling to keep its doors open

Kagoro disputes Shoki’s characterization that a “post-post-apartheid” era has dawned in South Africa, challenging the idea that the emergence of a new political language means the country has entered ...

Anti-immigrant politics in South Africa has been dismissed as being manufactured, conspiratorial, or yet another eruption of the xenophobic violence the country has seen before—but, Shoki argues, thes...

Thirty years ago, South Africa was heralded as a harbinger of a just and non-racial order. After decades of a criminal, repellent regime, Nelson Mandela’s ascension to the presidency and…

Tickets for an AfriForum event featuring former apartheid military doctor Wouter Basson have sold out ahead of Friday’s talk on Project Coast, the secret chemical and biological weapons programme.

South Africa’s creative industry is mourning the death of veteran actor, playwright, poet, drama teacher and cultural activist Solomon “Sol” Rachilo,

Decay Without Mourning, future thinking heritage practices is an issue of herri filled to the brim with productive rot and generative mould. Gloves on and hold your breath…

In this seminal novel of conflict and attempted reconciliation, we follow Kitso whose father had expelled him from the family home in Soweto on account of his youthful homosexual encounter with The…

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38,000 people have quit the country via Musina since the wave of xenophobia started

With fears mounting over March and March’s anti-immigrant deadline, Malawian migrants prepare to depart South Africa, caught in a whirlwind of anxiety and urgent repatriation efforts.…

Foreign affairs minister Limpho Tau lists land dispossession, migrant labour and apartheid-era raids as historical injustices

The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...

An important milestone of Black South African cinematic history that lives on in cultural memory, African Jim introduced the singular jazz singer and activist Dolly Rathebe to the big screen.

Abahlali baseMjondolo secretary-general Thapelo Mohapi has warned that growing anti-migrant mobilisation in KwaZulu-Natal risks escalating into broader ethnic violence, drawing parallels with the poli...

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