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Members of the ANC give testimony in Cape Town about human rights abuses committed during apartheid. (File photograph by Gallo Images/ Oryx Media Archive).
ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU

Truth commissions are lessons for societies in transition

South Africa and Colombia attempted to deal with a violent past through telling truths about human rights violations – even if both processes faltered one some measures

  • John Bonilla-Aranzales
6 min read
The unit was named after and inspired by Bonteheuwel activist and MK soldier, Ashley Kriel, who worked hard to conscientise 1980s working-class youth (image supplied by publisher)
ANC

Those who attack funerals self-identify as pariahs

What happens in Israel and Palestine does not affect Israelis and Palestinians, alone. It fuels a global fault-line of mistrust, suspicion, intolerance and violence

  • Mamphela Ramphele
  • Niclas Kjellström-Matseke
6 min read
Tutu’s legacy: St Mary’s Cathedral and surrounds are going to be turned into the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Precinct. (Papi Morake/Gallo Images)
ANGLICAN CHURCH

Desmond Tutu’s home, Jo’burg’s heritage: Revitalising St Mary’s Cathedral

The City of Johannesburg is finally set to declare St Mary’s Cathedral and surrounds in downtown Jo’burg as a national heritage site, to be called the Archbishop Desmond Tutu…

  • Melody Emmett
7 min read
Queer activist and filmmaker Bev Ditsie provides compelling reflections in the film (Supplied)
A NEW COUNTRY

Review: ‘A New Country’ portrays the lingering aftertaste of a bittersweet freedom

Taking its cues from the dimming of the hope suggested by rainbowism, ‘A New Country’ attempts to articulate the depths of betrayal South Africans feel

  • Kwanele Sosibo
7 min read