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Articles about South Africa, ordered by date. 
Fighting dispossession
Cape Town’s citizens’ groups are not taking housing injustice lying down, according to Ben Verghese and Ilham Rawoot.
New Internationalist: the first 50 years – and the next
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.
Southern Exposure: Lebo Thoka
An iconic self-portrait by South African photographer Lebo Thoka.
The city inside you
Letter from Johannesburg. Yewande Omotoso ponders how belonging to a city goes beyond the bald fact of living in it.
Green medicine
Yewande Omotoso’s apartment is slowly being taken over by plants, much to her delight.
Letter from Johannesburg
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.
Letter from Johannesburg
Befriending a namesake leads Yewande Omotoso down paths she hadn’t followed before.
Race and the city
Yewande Omotoso reflects on why no-nonsense Johannesburg is the place that suits her best.
The city in public
Yewande Omotoso moves through the unknowable city, looking and listening.
South Africa’s born-frees
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 and the nation
Zuma’s trial is just one symptom of South Africa’s problems, Neil Thompson reports.
Introducing... Cyril Ramaphosa
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.
Over the rainbow
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.
Get up, stand up!
Meet the Rastafarian lawyer fighting for cannabis freedom in South Africa. Interview by Alice McCool.
Bitter grapes sweeten in South Africa
Peter Kenworthy on a striking success for wine workers.
The fight goes on…
Workers’ struggles and successes from around the globe, from this month's New Internationalist magazine.
Carry-on up the Limpopo
Cristiana Moisescu reports on 'cinema in a backpack'.
Introducing Julius Malema
The rise of South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters party, and its leader, speaks volumes, says Richard Swift.
Making Waves: Desmond D'Sa
The South African environmental justice crusader has taken on the industrial giants despoiling his community. He tells Veronique Mistiaen of the strength of a people united behind a cause.
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