• Naadira Munshi

In South Africa, the seismic shifts in unionism triggered by the Marikana Massacre have sadly not resulted in a union movement better equipped to tackle the issues that workers face.

• Shaeera Kalla

The impact of the Marikana massacre on South Africa’s student movement for free education, and an end to outsourcing, has been overlooked.

• Luke Sinwell
• Nicholas Rush Smith

We know an enormous amount about what precipitated the 2012 Marikana massacre, but relatively little about what is behind the violence there since.

• Benjamin Fogel
• Claire-Anne Lester

The Marikana Massacre changed democratic South Africa forever. It can also catalyze resistance to the current order.

• Ra’eesa Pather
• Michael Marchant

South Africa’s ruling party’s devotion to its policy of cadre deployment is an indication that it values its own power more than the public interest.

• J.S. Arndt

Why languages, particularly black African languages, have become a battleground in postapartheid power and identity politics in South Africa.

• Noor Nieftagodien

Before the Soweto Uprising in 1976, students and workers organized one of the largest strike actions in South Africa’s history.

• Nicky Falkof

What happens to the contemporary explosion of moral panics, urban legends, and other paranoid narratives when they manifest in a place like South Africa?

• Paul S. Landau
• Hlonipha Mokoena

The ANC and Nelson Mandela’s turn to violent anticolonial struggle in the early 1960s, is the subject of a new book by historian of South Africa, Paul Landau.

• Janet Munakamwe

From Operation Fiela to Operation Dudula, xenophobia in South Africa is bent on protecting the interests of politicians.

• Zachary Levenson

The historian Premesh Lalu’s film about an apartheid-era cinema on the Cape Flats also offers a glimpse of a future beyond racism for South Africa.

• Tom Slater

The University of Edinburgh will award an honorary doctorate to Joe Schaffers, a working-class educator from Cape Town, South Africa. It will be a new benchmark for this tradition.

• William Shoki

Politics is about effectiveness, and casting youth as a political subject (rather than simply a demographic), is a bad way to do politics.

• Axolile Notywala

Cape Town-based activist Axolile Notywala wants to bring people from different backgrounds together to build a movement on what it means to be free in South Africa.

• Chris Webb

The Rise and Fall of National Wake, South Africa’s first multiracial punk band at the height of apartheid, that sang about state violence and political freedoms.

• Kate Dawson

Platinum holds promise for a net-zero future. But the promise of platinum cannot be founded on the broken promises endured by those who live in its spaces of extraction.

• Tarminder Kaur

Race, class and the story of struggle and sacrifice in the making of South Africa’s next generation of track and field athletes.

• Megan Robertson

A new book presents an empirical challenge to the myth of South Africa as the “pink capital” of Africa and contributes to building an archive of queer, African, and religious narratives.

• Wamuwi Mbao

The University of Stellenbosch in South Africa treats racism as an issue that must be soft-soaped to avoid alienating white people.

• The Amandla Editorial Collective

Why South Africa needs to democratize its labor movement.