South Africa’s far right never had a big support base, even under apartheid.
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The South African pressure group Afriforum and its allies want to be the only voices speaking on behalf of Afrikaners.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was recently the subject of a racist video rant.
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Calls to impose harsh prison sentences for verbal crimen injuria are often premised on the need to deter such behaviour.
Graeme Williams’s photograph he took in Thokoza township, near Johannesburg, in 1991. Police watch an ANC rally.
Graeme Williams
Acknowledging the source of the images would amplify rather than diminish the power of Hank Willis Thomas’s political art.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addressing the 13th Cosatu conference.
Sowetan/Thulani Mbele
Electoral support by trade union federation Cosatu has been a huge asset for South Africa’s governing ANC.
Land reform discussions in Namibia don’t address capital or profits.
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Shortcomings of Namibia’s land reforms suggest that voluntary, market-based transactions might not be suitable.
The myth of the empty sea is largely the product of European imperialisms and their map-making.
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A new project takes a different look at the role of oceans.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a news conference in Ottawa in June 2018. A United Nations housing watchdog has criticized the Liberals over what it sees as their about-face on a promise to put a human rights lens on its housing strategy.
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If the liberal international order is to survive, countries like Canada will need to defend international human rights law.
Mangosutho Buthelezi in parliament.
EPA/Mark Wessels
Mangosuthu Buthelezi carries extensive accountability for the sectarianism that characterised politics in South Africa before 1994.
Students are more vulnerable to food insecurity.
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Food insecurity among students can impair academic performance or even lead to some dropping out.
Dutch Memorial Day commemorated in Amsterdam, May 4, 2014.
Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei, Jasper Juinen
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.
Stanley Glasser.
Stephanus Muller
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.
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Mandela did not make the decision to jettison Taiwan and recognise China. He adhered to a decision by the governing ANC.
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.
David Goldblatt
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
Photographer David Goldblatt’s presence through his photographs will always be with us.
Artist Johannes Phokela’s ceramic memorial wall.
Ruth Simbao
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
Nelson Mandela’s centenary celebrations provide a chance to debunk the lie that he sold out black South Africans.