Can South Africa ever fully shake off the shackles of apartheid? Conrad Landin asks whether the country’s historic genocide case against Israel could lead to a reckoning at home.

Loneliness and social isolation have become chronic issues across the world. We must resist attempts to close down meaningful human interaction, writes Husna Ara.

We don’t just need solutions – we need the courage to imagine they will succeed. Conrad Landin makes the case for collective action to secure a just future.

We need thriving rivers in order for life on Earth to flourish. But often how we treat them shows little understanding of this basic principle. Dinyar Godrej ventures into the maelstrom.

Why is a nutritious superfood being routed away from poor communities to feed salmon, pigs and pets? Hazel Healy investigates.

Access to life-saving Covid-19 vaccines should not be reserved for the rich. But that is what’s happening on a global scale today. Heidi Chow calls for technology to be shared and patents to be suspended in order to unlock vaccine production for all.

Whatever his shortcomings, Ramaphosa is probably the last chance for the older generation of ANC leadership to make good on long-promised equality and justice, Richard Swift writes.

SIM cards loaded with cash handed out across the country have been credited with staving off a Somali famine after warnings of an impending crisis in February. Roshni Majumdar reports.

Army of Robins; Fossil fail; Mothers halt HIV

To a Land Unknown; The Fire Inside.

In Defence of Barbarism; Disaster Nationalism; The Parlour Wife; Pink Witch.

Some Mississippi Sunday; One Drop of Kindness.

From Uganda to Mozambique, Sophie Neiman follows the trail of destruction of oil and gas.

A profile of Afghan campaigner for women’s education and rights Jamila Afghani, who started by persuading the imams. Beena Nadeem talks to the unassuming trailblazer

Ego? Tick. Money? Tick. Power-hungry? Tick. A disaster for the world? Tick.

Inflation, poverty and hunger, debt, profit and inequality.

The photos, facts, and politics of Uruguay.

Live from Mars, by P J Polyp.