History Matters

Earlier this year ‘Racial Redress and Citizenship in South Africa’ was launched by the HSRC Press, which primarily focused on how to deal with race issues in South Africa in the context of building a single national identity. The book is available for free download on their website. Here is an interview with some of [...]

Jean van der Poel, Schweizer-Reneke, Koeberg, museum service, The Beatles, Afrikaans poetry, National Union of Mineworkers …

20 July 1969: South African invention lands on the moon! 21 July 1999: South African athlete, Motsoeneng, admits to cheating in Comrades Marathon. 22 July 1988: Senior UDF leaders released from detention for being part of the Mandela Birthday Celebrations Committee 23 July 1986: The obligatory carrying of passbooks by Blacks in SA is lifted. [...]

There is a pervasive and growing sense that South Africa has lost its way, that we have lost our sense of direction. I find myself trying to pinpoint where it started going wrong and I struggle with the answers. But i’ve come up with this: I think we lost our path when the struggle against [...]

If you’re in Cape Town, get to the Book Lounge on 3 June for the book launch of Mamphele Ramphele’s new book Laying Ghosts to Rest. If the blurb is to believed, Dr Ramphele provides a thought-provoking and honest analysis of the state of our young democracy. But we don’t need to listen to blurbs [...]