South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim in 2014.
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In his work Abdullah Ibrahim looks to the past to offer a vision of the future.
Prof Eddie Webster.
University of the Witwatersrand
Eddie Webster inspired generations of scholars with his vision and practice of critically engaged scholarship, in South Africa and worldwide.
Nelson Mandela greets people as he walks with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on his arrival in Ottawa, June 17, 1990, for a three-day visit to Canada.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Wm. DeKay
Brian Mulroney’s role in the campaign against apartheid in South Africa can teach us how Canadian foreign policy can be done effectively.
Inequalities persist in the field of academic human geography.
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The cycle of opportunity and prestige for historically advantaged institutions leaves historically Black institutions on the back foot.
Cover detail of the book Guerrillas and Combative Mothers.
UKZN Press
The interviews in this book offer firsthand insights into women’s participation in the armed struggle against apartheid.
Israeli soldiers drive a tank on the border with the Gaza Strip on Feb. 4, 2024.
(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Is Israel changing course following the recent ruling by the International Court of Justice? It appears not, and that poses risks for the international community, including Canada.
Zuleikha Mayat with copies of her bestselling book, Indian Delights.
Courtesy of the Mayat family
Mayat embodied principled, faith-based, socially committed, inspired leadership.
Researchers capturing data in the Wits Agincourt Data Sciences and Innovation Hub.
Chante Schatz
Agincourt, the University of the Witwatersrand’s rural research centre 500km from Johannesburg, has documented the lives of 120,000 people over decades.
Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on Jan. 18, 2024.
(AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
The West no longer has credibility when it criticizes Russia, China or any other state for human rights abuses or breaches of international law due to its feeble response to Israel’s assault on Gaza.
Peter Magubane documented black life and resistance in South Africa.
Peter Magubane/PMHA/Courtesy the Magubane family
Magubane’s photographs testify to the hope that is at the heart of the struggle for a just world.
A hand painted advertisement for Coke in Arusha, Tanzania.
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Coca-Cola has often been entangled with key political moments in Africa since its arrival in the early 1900s.
Dimitri Otis
The benefits of creative writing are particularly important in countries where there’s a need to build a caring society and there are limited resources.
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Anna “Kakurukaze” Mungunda became the most widely acknowledged face of the resistance to the apartheid policy of forced removal.
Cape Town Opera stages The Mandela Trilogy in Wales.
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A new book explores how Cape Town became a hub for African opera.
People lie dead in the aftermath of the unprovoked shooting of peaceful protesters.
Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images
Despite its historic importance, Sharpeville itself has remained unknown and its residents anonymous, yet they have a story to tell.
Palestinian children amid homes in Gaza reduced by rubble by Israeli bombs.
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The European bourgeoisie could not forgive Hitler because he applied in Europe colonialist procedures previously reserved for the supposedly inferior Arabs, Indians, and Africans.
Marwan Saleh/AP/AAP
Without independent evidence, the ABC is right not to adopt for itself terms such as ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid’, but equally it is right to report others making such allegations.
Opera meets vogueing in the production about the life and work of the late Simon Nkoli.
Mark Lewis/Nkoli: The Vogue Opera
A 26-member theatre ensemble aims to bring history to light in a fresh way.
Henry Bredekamp in 2010.
© C. Beyer/Iziko
The father of Khoisan revivalism became a public historian as his academic work met activism.
South African captain Temba Bavuma huddles with the team.
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This is South Africa’s fifth semi-final at the tournament. Is 2023 the year they reach the finals and win?