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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Maano Ramutsindela, Frank Matose, and Tafadzwa Mushonga’s Book, “The Violence of Conservation in Africa”
14 Sep 2022
This week’s featured authors are Maano Ramutsindela, Frank Matose, and Tafadzwa Mushonga. Ramutsindela is Professor of Geography in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the…
Sinawo Thambo, Leigh-Ann Mathys, Sixolise Gcilishe
Economic Freedom Fighters Statement on the Death of Queen Elizabeth
14 Sep 2022
The brutal history of British imperialism should not be forgotten in the wake of the Queen's death. The South African organization, Economic Freedom Fighters, recounts the many crimes perpetrated by…
Ajit Singh, Roscoe Palm
Manufacturing Consent: How the United States Has Penetrated South African Media
17 Aug 2022
The CIA has played a role in controlling South African media from the days of apartheid to the present.
Brian Kamanzi
South Africa’s Energy Crisis Escalates
27 Jul 2022
Behind rolling power cuts loom deep-seated socioeconomic issues worsened by the rich countries of the world.
Mark P. Fancher
The Soweto Uprising’s Unfinished Business
15 Jun 2022
Worldwide outrage over the killing of Soweto youth protesting on June 16, 1976 was a turning point in South African history. But the end of apartheid was not the end of racist oppression or corporate…
New Frame
Marking Workers’ Day in Dispiriting Times
03 May 2022
Previously in South Africa, millions of people were mobilised in the hope of a better future on May Day. Now, amid mass unemployment and the collapse of an emancipatory vision, that optimism is…
New Frame
Devastation in Durban
26 Apr 2022
The floods that have wreaked havoc in the shacklands of Durban, South Africa are another searing indictment of the social abandonment of the majority by a predatory political elite.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: The 1959 Pan Africanist Manifesto
26 Jan 2022
The Pan African Congress of Azania’s 1959 Manifesto provides a radical blueprint for African self-determination.
Roy Singham
On the Road from Detroit to South Africa: Black Radical Internationalist Traditions
23 Nov 2021
Roy Singham reminisces about his work with the late General Gordon Baker, Jr. and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) in Detroit and its connections with South African workers.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
F.W. de Klerk: Requiem for a Racist Murderer
17 Nov 2021
F.W. de Klerk was the last apartheid president of South Africa. But remnants of that system remain, and the struggle continues to completely erase the legacy of apartheid criminality.