In recent years, black wine growers, distillers’ and drinkers have been staking their claim on the industry.
Cape Town’s citizens’ groups are not taking housing injustice lying down, according to Ben Verghese and Ilham Rawoot.
Chris Brazier looks back over a career as a co-editor that stretches back to 1984, remembering highlights and dark moments from Nicaragua to Vietnam, South Africa to Western Sahara and Burkina Faso.
An iconic self-portrait by South African photographer Lebo Thoka.
Letter from Johannesburg. Yewande Omotoso ponders how belonging to a city goes beyond the bald fact of living in it.
Yewande Omotoso’s apartment is slowly being taken over by plants, much to her delight.
Ways of belonging. Having travelled to the land of her birth as the coronavirus pandemic began to gather pace, Yewande Omotoso feels the tug of home.
Befriending a namesake leads Yewande Omotoso down paths she hadn’t followed before.
Yewande Omotoso reflects on why no-nonsense Johannesburg is the place that suits her best.
Yewande Omotoso moves through the unknowable city, looking and listening.
This year, South Africa marks 25 years since its first democratic elections, which ended white minority rule, made Nelson Mandela president and gave all South Africans equal political rights. Ilvy Njiokiktjien photographs the young South Africans who have known only life in the post-apartheid ‘rainbow nation’.
Zuma’s trial is just one symptom of South Africa’s problems, Neil Thompson reports.
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.
A new generation of black activists in South Africa don’t have the ‘patience’ of their parents. Chris Webb looks at how the education system has become a flashpoint of struggle.
Meet the Rastafarian lawyer fighting for cannabis freedom in South Africa. Interview by Alice McCool.
Peter Kenworthy on a striking success for wine workers.
Workers’ struggles and successes from around the globe, from this month's New Internationalist magazine.
Cristiana Moisescu reports on 'cinema in a backpack'.