South Africa

South Africa

• Mapping My Way Home - book review

  

  Stephanie Urdang’s memoir reveals her courageous personal involvement in the struggles against apartheid and for national liberation in southern Africa, finds Jacqueline Mulhallen

• Obituary of anti-apartheid jazz legend Hugh Masekela (1939-2018)

  

  Hugh Masekala, the jazz legend and anti-apartheid activist from South Africa, passed away last week. Dave Randall looks at his extraordinary life and pays tribute.

• Zimbabwe: Change to keep things the same

  

  The coup against Robert Mugabe is about maintaining control

• Selling Apartheid: South Africa's Global Propaganda War

  

  Ron Nixon’s Selling Apartheid shows how money and power can be used to promote even the most immoral and distasteful of causes, finds Jacqueline Mulhallen

• Like Mandela, Palestinians are prisoners of an apartheid system

  

  The occupation of Palestine by Israeli forces is not dissimilar to apartheid South Africa, argues Koos Mohammed

• One simple argument about the existence of the state of Israel

  

   

  John Rees explains why a secular, democratic state across historic Palestine has nothing in common with anti-semitism

• South Africa after Marikana: an interview with Trevor Ngwane

  

  South African socialist and anti-apartheid activist Trevor Ngwane is interviewed by Susan Newman

• Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid

  

  Two leading activists of the fight against Apartheid, Ruth First and Joe Slovo, for the first time have received a comprehensive biography