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South African Poet and Literary Scholar Gabeba Baderoon Receives Honorary Doctorate from Nelson Mandela University

On March 31, 2026, poet and public intellectual Professor Gabeba Baderoon was conferred an honorary Doctor of Literature by Nelson Mandela University for her work that continues to...

South African Nobel laureate JM Coetzee Refuses Jerusalem Writers Festival Invitation

Nobel laureate JM Coetzee has declined an invitation to attend the Jerusalem International Writers Festival, scheduled for May 25–28, in a strongly worded letter condemning Israe...

De kunst van Buhlebezwe Siwani is een monument tegen apartheid, en voor ondergewaardeerde vrouwen overal ter wereld

South Africa’s reconciliation efforts at home – and with the US

The United States alleges that South Africa is persecuting white minority Afrikaners, so it’s granting them privileged refugee status. Meanwhile, Pretoria has named a new ambassado...

To our Beloved Brothers in South Africa, by Femi Fani-Kayode 

William Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ is, in my view, one of his best plays ever written by history’s greatest bard and playwright and it is indeed amongst my favourites.  It speak...

Ancient African rock art at Bushman’s Kloof in South Africa

Early one morning, five of us climbed aboard a safari vehicle and headed into the Bushman’s Kloof wilderness of... The post Ancient African rock art at Bushman’s Kloof in South Afr...

Can South Africa’s Apartheid-Era Negotiator Chart a Smooth Course in the U.S.?

Pretoria stakes high hopes on its controversial pick for ambassador to Washington.

Botswana: Death Row Cell Where Dawn Is Memory and Grave Is Roommate

[Botswana Daily News] Gaborone -- A heavily guarded metal door swings open. Entrance is restricted and monitored by guards.

South Africa: Former North West Premier Bushy Maape Dies - South African News Briefs - May 18, 2026

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The man who blew up a nuclear power station and disappeared

In December 1982, South African Rodney Wilkinson walked four bombs into Koeberg power station – the crown jewel of the apartheid state – pulled the pins and then left on his bicycl...

South Africa Names Roelf Meyer, Apartheid-Era Negotiator, as U.S. Ambassador

The move comes as the country looks to strengthen diplomatic ties with the United States after months of hostility between the two nations.

South Africa: South African Apartheid Prepared Me for Today's United States

[allAfrica] Every morning, when I awake, I push my way through a smog of dread. I reach for my phone, fumble for my glasses, open my email. Headlines filled with doom bombard me. I...

When Liberation Forgets The Continent: South Africa, Xenophobia, and the Crisis of a Freedom Turning Inward

Few tragedies are as unsettling as a liberation learning to fear those who once helped sustain it. In South Africa, that irony is no abstraction. It lives in the uneasy space where...

The Truth That Will Rise Barefoot | Amina Abdulsalam Muhammad | Poetry

  They gave us a flag, and told us it was sewn from unity. But I can still see the stitches fraying at the edges, red threads whispering of blood no anthem dares to name, white thr...

Die rode verf op het Nationaal Monument bewijst dat we in een wildernis leven

South Africa: Security Boss Admits Ignoring Orders to Stop Graft - South African News Briefs - April 10, 2026

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Africa: 'An African Cannot Be a Foreigner in Africa'

[GroundUp] In St George's Cathedral on Africa Day activists called out Afrophobia, saying immigrants are fighting for the same dignity as marginalised South Africans

NIROX Sculpture Park: Exploring South Africa’s outdoor gallery

The post NIROX Sculpture Park: Exploring South Africa’s outdoor gallery appeared first on Getaway Magazine.

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South Africa: No Arrests Yet in Kubheka Kidnapping Case - South African News Briefs - May 4, 2026

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South Africa: We are all victims

South Africa has pursued post-apartheid policies, the consequences of which we are seeing today. The country has a terrifying, soft underbelly which is now completely hopeless and...

South African Writer Mfundi Vundla Gets Personal in His New Play

Mfundi Vundla spent 21 years in exile and created the popular television show “Generations.” His latest project is a play that explores the imperfections of the fight against apart...

South African Poet Siphokazi Jonas Wins 2025 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry for Debut Collection Weeping Become...

Siphokazi Jonas, the South African poet, playwright, performer, and producer, has been announced as the 2025 winner of the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry — the only pan-Af...

South Africa: Manhunt Launched After Eight Escape Eastern Cape Cells - South African News Briefs - April 6, 2026

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