Stop calling Breonna Taylor’s killing a 'tragedy’
Using the word tragedy to describe Breonna Taylor’s killing is a…
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Legacies of leadership
In a world arguably increasingly defined by terrible failures of leadership, Achmat Dangor, George Bizos…
Unthere: Reflections on Nonconforming Gender
“It is a country where black and white are like islands in the middle of s…
Needed: A new social contract
Foundation CE Sello Hatang writes of South Africa's need for social healing to mend the…
Lakhal'ixilongo - Pursuing a New Kind of Politics
The deaths of Zindziswa Mandela — a diplomat, activist and daughter of Nelson and Winnie…
Oh Jehova! Not another ‘rupture’ – the ‘new normal’ petit bourgeois revolution
If anything, the Covid-19 crisis in South Africa should animate an intersectional, inclusive and…
A new world order
The month of July is always a cluttered one for the Nelson Mandela Foundation, as…
Making liberatory global futures
The Foundation's Sello Hatang and Khalil Goga on how United Nations Secretary-General António …
Community development ‘yet-to-come’ during and post the COVID-19 pandemic: from Derrida to Zuboff
The contours of this article, written as a dialogue between two authors, one in Australia …
The collective shame for us all after Qholani's treatment
The Covid-19 pandemic provides even more time to reflect on the sort of society we…
‘We have no Harlem in Sudan’
A white, off-duty New York policeman fires three fatal shots at a black teenage…
Can we solve hunger in South Africa?
When people’s need for water, food and shelter isn’t met, the result is cat…
2019 Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity issue a racial justice call to action
To those who believe in fairness and equal justice: We, the 2019 cohort of the…
"Never, never and never again"
May has seen the Nelson Mandela Foundation preoccupied with emergency relief work and the selection…
Stimulus plan needed for rural education
We come together united by a long-term commitment to education and rural development, to motivate…
Finding dignity in regulating responses to Covid-19
Covid-19 is presenting humanity with an enormous challenge as it faces a global crisis on…
Preschool closures threat: Early childhood development sector faces major closures as parents scramble for fees
Without government intervention, close to one million children could be stranded by the time early…
The time to do different is now
Foundation CE Sello Hatang writes that, while mistakes will be made, South Africa must soldier…
More than a million children, thousands of ECD operators at risk without state support
If 30 000 ECD programmes serving vulnerable communities stop operating due to South Africa's Covid-19 lockdown, it…
May we rise to the challenge
To reflect on anything other than Covid-19 is unimaginable, for obvious reasons. Not in my…