In over 30 countries LGBTIQ+ people would face imprisonment. Progress has been made but there is still a long way to go.
An illustration of an antique photograph of the British Empire’s mission work among the Zulu people of then-Natal province.
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The Head & The Load finally reaches Johannesburg after delays caused by the COVID pandemic.
Moffat Takadiwa, left, and curator Fadzai Muchemwa in front of the work Bhiro ne Bepa on his solo show Vestiges of Colonialism.
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The British empire brought the practice of commons enclosure to Africa to claim land. Its effects continue today at sites like the Liesbeek River in Cape Town.
Land reform remains a divisive subject 23 years after democracy in South Africa.
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After South Africa’s first democratic election in 1994, the previously oppressed and dispossessed black majority hoped for constitutional restitution of their land. This has largely failed.
How do leaders find authority as discerners of evil?
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Witch-finders of early modern Europe and modern Africa made themselves indispensable by showing people a threat of a growing crisis of threatening evil.