South Africa

After President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Thursday,

In early September 2016, the South African government announced that it intends to issue a request for proposals under its ambitious and controversial multi-billion dollar nuclear reactor building programme (Ensor and Paton, 2016).

[This lecture was delivered in honor of the legacy of Steven Bantu Biko to the community of Boipatong in Sedibeng, Guateng Province, South Africa on 24 September 2016. The event was hosted by the Sedibeng Regional Chapter of Black First Land First.)

September offered South Africa yet another occasion to pore over shared national heritage, contested memories and the construction of meaning.

On 17 April 2016 Glebelands Hostel Community Violence Victims hosted a press conference to announce their appeal to the United Nations for assistance in bringing an end to the violence which has beset this comm

Pretoria Girls High School was shaken to its core two weeks ago when Black girls attending this apartheid-era elite school challenged fundamental tenets of white supremacy.

In the afternoon of the 24th August 2016, the HoD of Politics at University of Cape Town addressed to me a letter, whose contents we shall in a moment discourse about. He opens the letter with the following salutation, “Dear Lwazi.” He could as well have written, “Dear Dr.

The word in Twi that comes closest to defining “hubris” for me is tirimudƐ.

For the benefit of readers who do not speak Twi, the word literally means “to entertain sweetness inside one's own head”!

The term ‘pogrom’ seems to be a befitting epithet to describe the wanton killings and verbal vendettas that characterized the campaign rallies preceding the August 3 local government elections in the rainbow nation of South Africa.

We have faced many evictions in the City of Durban since our movement was formed in 2005. Almost all these evictions have been violent, unlawful and criminal.