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Taking race discussions beyond the usual

An interview with Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity's Sebabatso Manoeli on the Race Beyond…
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My archives intern journey

Since joining the archive team, I have been on an amazing learning curve and have…
Unthere Men

Unthere Men: Indoda Mayibe critically discussed

There does not seem to be a linear way to discuss men simply for the…
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A crisis of imagination

While the crisis humanity is facing feels like a material one, a practical one, in…
Protest for Breonna Taylor

Stop calling Breonna Taylor’s killing a 'tragedy’

Using the word tragedy to describe Breonna Taylor’s killing is a…
Graca Machel, Nelson Mandela and George Bizos at a Nelson Mandela Foundation event

Legacies of leadership

In a world arguably increasingly defined by terrible failures of leadership, Achmat Dangor, George Bizos…
A man in a field: early morning

Unthere: Reflections on Nonconforming Gender

“It is a country where black and white are like islands in the middle of s…
Black Lives Matter protest

Lakhal'ixilongo - pursuing a new kind of politics

The deaths of Zindziswa Mandela — a diplomat, activist and daughter of Nelson and Winnie…
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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…
Antonio Guterres - Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture 2020

A new world order

The month of July is always a cluttered one for the Nelson Mandela Foundation, as…
Poverty Inequality

Making liberatory global futures

The Foundation's Sello Hatang and Khalil Goga on how United Nations Secretary-General António …
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Community development ‘yet-to-come’ during and post the Covid-19 pandemic: from Derrida to Zubof

This article, written as a dialogue between two authors, one in Australia (Westoby) and one…
A house in the veld

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…
Black Lives Matter

‘We have no Harlem in Sudan’

A white, off-duty New York policeman fires three fatal shots at a black teenage…
#BlackLivesMatter protest

"Never, never and never again"

May has seen the Nelson Mandela Foundation preoccupied with emergency relief work and the selection…
Rural Teaching Qunu

Stimulus plan needed for rural education

We come together united by a long-term commitment to education and rural development, to motivate…