The anthropologist and former college rugby player answers eleven questions on fandom, players, teams, and identity.

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

Schemes to forcibly remove Palestinians from Gaza are not being promoted by fringe voices. But the international community continues to avert its eyes, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Adeeb Farhat’s archive repurposes traces of Israel’s occupation of South Lebanon, preserving stories of loss, resistance, and home amid ongoing war and displacement.

How two football stadiums offer an entry point into an architectural story of Bantustan politics in the former South African “homeland,” Bophuthatswana.

The geometric earthwork structures, carved into the ground with embankments and ditches, are in some cases more than 2,500 years old, researchers said.

A brief history of a popular mirage.

An Essay.

While law enforcement officers escorted anti-foreigner demonstrators through Boksburg, some participants vandalised businesses and demanded immigration inspections. A march leader joined an official i...

Editorial: The work of one of Italy’s greatest scholars focused on ordinary lives oppressed by power and prejudice. That approach resonates today

Xenophobia in Africa’s southernmost nation will have vast implications.

Africa was not an anarchist paradise; it underwent broadly similar processes of centralisation and state formation to those found elsewhere, with regional variation.

On 5 June 1975, four carabinieri officers, in one car, drove up a winding road to an isolated farmhouse above Acqui...

Zimmerer, Jürgen. Germany’s History Wars: Contesting Memory and Identity Today. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025. On November 12, 2025, the German parliament accepted a new [...]

Ideas matter. And it's high time key players in the Horn (politicians, academics, journalists, analysts, and military strategists) chose to escape the pro-war shackles of geography and history.

Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army have relied on borderlands and declining political will to avoid detection.

Parliamentary suspicion and underlying Afrophobia are putting South Africa’s universities at risk, discouraging international academics and students. This threatens the country’s higher education goal...

O médico e escritor português António Lobo Antunes morreu, nesta quinta-feira, aos 83 anos, confirmou ao PÚBLICO fonte da editora.

The U.S. is demanding Tehran curb its missile ambitions, but Iran denies seeking an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Brokers say cost of cover to increase by as much as 50% after conflict erupts

There is an undeniable symmetry between surges in drug use in the US and the country’s covert operations overseas. The...

It’s understandable that the dead should be angry or vengeful: after all, they have suffered a terrible calamity....

A historian who pays full attention to their sources can’t help but be transformed into a monster...

I outline Dino Estevao’s journey from a nine-year-old ‘orphan’ dislocated from Angola, subsequently raised by a South African Defence Force military community, to reuniting with his family in 1995 ...

I outline Dino Estevao’s journey from a nine-year-old ‘orphan’ dislocated from Angola, subsequently raised by a South African Defence Force military community, to reuniting with his family in 1995 ...

The African Union’s predecessor accepted colonial borders, despite their injustices and contradictions. Many Africans never embraced that bargain and the faultline continues to shape politics.

In the historiography of the African National Congress, the ways in which unequal power dynamics between male and female comrades manifested are often obfuscated. Furthermore, belying the reality t...

Cecil Rhodes saw the ‘native question’ very differently from imperial officials and missionaries who tried to...

Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths...

The apartheid-era South African Defence Force’s most notorious units, 31 Battalion and 32 Battalion, were composed of African troops. With the onset of Namibia’s 1990 independence, these soldiers a...

Vigilante group is controlling clinic queues in Johannesburg

Weaponizing antiquities is part of Israel's colonial legacy, says Rafi Greenberg, whose colleagues have largely remained silent about Gaza's destruction.

Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force is...

Now that the war is so long ago, the subject of Nazi exiles in South America can seem a stale, even dubious...

Surge in violations to more than 40,000 – the highest since records began in 1996 – must serve as a ‘wake-up call’