Iraeli Arab Knesset member Jamal Zahalka is removed after protesting the bill’s passage.
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Rather than transform Israel into an undemocratic ‘apartheid’ state, the new nation-state law is more likely to ensure that Israel can’t be transformed into a liberal democracy or binational state.
Former US president Barack Obama delivers a speech in Kenya ahead of his visit to South Africa.
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Barack Obama is delivering the Nelson Mandela lecture in a changing world dominated by the often outrageous utterances of his successor, US President Donald Trump.
Prophets of da City.
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One of South Africa’s finest hip-hop crews message was that you couldn’t box identities forged through multilingual living in the ghettos.
Former US president Barack Obama is due to deliver the 2018 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in Johannesburg.
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Drawing on Mandela’s legacy, Obama can help the world better understand the nature of threats to democracy.
One of David Goldblatt’s iconic photographs.
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It was only in the late 1990s, as the world became more interested in South African photographers’ work, that Goldblatt’s work was identified as extraordinary.
A farmer’s son with his nursemaid, Heimweeberg, Nietverdiend, Western Transvaal 1964.
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Photographer David Goldblatt’s presence through his photographs will always be with us.
Artist Johannes Phokela’s ceramic memorial wall.
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The persistence of Sam Nzima’s June 16 photograph is remarkable. The shadow in the photograph can be read as a metaphor for the rich debate that this image continues to bring to the surface.
Nelson Mandela embodied South Africa’s long, arduous journey to freedom and equality.
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Nelson Mandela’s centenary celebrations provide a chance to debunk the lie that he sold out black South Africans.
Palestinian protesters run for cover from Israeli teargas in May.
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The UN’s Responsibility to Protect framework for safeguarding civilians against atrocities could help resolve the Gaza crisis.
Protesting in Berlin.
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Not the sort of amount you’d want to lose down the back of the sofa.
CCTV cameras are becoming a “normal” feature of public life, tracking peoples’ movements as a matter of course.
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As CCTV cameras become more widespread, it’s becoming more difficult for people to protect their locational privacy in public.
South African rugby player Ashwin Willemse (in green jersey) playing against New Zealand’s All Blacks in 2003.
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Race still plays a big part in South African society. Sport is no exception.
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Apartheid has been removed from the statute books for almost three decades. But a de facto apartheid endures both economically and socially.
Philip Tabane.
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Philip Tabane was unlike any other musician. His music was intimately woven into his cosmology and spirituality.
The flaws in the political settlement that ended apartheid need urgent attention.
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Mandela’s reconciliation message may have partly reflected his view of the world. But it was also a product of his party, the ANC.
China hopes to make more microprocessor chips in China, which makes it a great industry to lead a boycott.
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If companies in key industries collectively shunned the Chinese market, that would force China’s leaders to take notice, with less risk of blowback.
A soccer game in a dusty field in Alexandra, a township in Johannesburg.
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The colonial and apartheid education project still echoes in South Africa’s post-1994 school system.
Hugh Masekela performing in 2015.
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The protest song “Stimela” remains as much a song about present and future aspirations, as it is of the past.
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A furious Twitter row between a TV personality and South African politician about slavery sheds light on the failings of arguments in 280 characters.
Freedom day marks the first time all South Africans cast their vote for a democratic government.
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This years’ Freedom Day in South Africa can signify a difference: a renewal and return to the values of the 1994 social contract