As the anniversary of Indonesian independence from the Netherlands approaches, a close look reveals how Dutch policy divides people along racial lines and ignores the Indonesian dead in that war.
South African-born composer Stanley Glasser’s musical legacy is in many ways unknown in his motherland which he left under political duress in 1963, and awaits critical engagement.
Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin greets former South African President Nelson Mandela in 2000.
EPA/Mike Hutchings
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.
Dai Kurokawa/EPA
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.
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.
David Goldblatt
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.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, and Visiting Professor of International Relations, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, University of Pretoria