South Africa celebrates its Human Rights Day as a divided society. How we see each other puts the meaning of humans to the test. The founders of our constitutional order committed us to a society anchored on fundamental human rights. Being human comes with rights. Rights specify entitlement and confer power. [...]

TimesLive 07 March 2025 South Africa has steadfastly assumed the unique role of being the new global advocate of a rules-based international governance system. By courageously confronting apartheid wherever it rears its head in the world, RSA has emerged as a beacon of hope on matters of racism, equality, decoloniality, [...]

The decision by the US Secretary of State to declare RSA Ambassador to the US Ibrahim Rasool, a persona non grata, is unprecedented and consequential in USA-RSA relations. Given the post-Trump inauguration tensions between RSA and the Trump administration, South Africa faces one of its consequential post-1994 foreign policy challenges [...]

Steve Biko stressed the need for South Africans to liberate themselves psychologically and become self-reliant to change South Africa fundamentally. South Africans need to remember that the historical and structural roots of racial inequality and privilege run deep. Notwithstanding that they are less visible, they lie beneath the surface, and [...]