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And as South Africa marks Human Rights Day, thirty years after human dignity was written into law, this is the reckoning we cannot postpone.
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Apartheid lives: Why we still use that era’s ‘racial’ categories

While race is still central, it is the battle among the rich for the wealth of South Africa that has exacerbated inequality

  • Jeff Rudin
8 min read
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Paddy Harper finds his ANC councillor has led him, but much like Donald Trump, it was down a garden path

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Dust is set in a contained space, allowing for a slow-burning exploration of moral dilemmas (Supplied)
APOCALYPSE

Review: The land is not to be outdone in ‘Dust’

Pieter du Plessis’s post-apocalyptic film throws up some interesting questions, but it also needs to work a little harder

  • Kwanele Sosibo
5 min read
One of the problems facing immigrants in South Africa is to confront the reality of adapting to racialised identity categories and to find their place in the racial classification system. (John McCann/M&G)
APARTHEID

Race identity policy is irrelevant to ‘new South Africans’

Immigrants self-identify differently – and they can help their new country become truly nonracial

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
Turnaround: Education Minister Angie Motshekga expresses her delight at the Eastern Cape’s improved matric results. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
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PODCAST: De Bijbel

In this Sound Africa podcast, Candice Nolan tries to find the answers she is looking for by looking in an old bible

  • Sound Africa
  • Rasmus Bitsch
1 min read
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LAND EXPROPRIATION WITHOUT COMPENSATION

A white person’s guide to land expropriation without compensation

These four words have white South Africans reaching for their passports quicker than news that Mumford and Sons are going to be playing

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read