The End Conscription Campaign was the poster child for irreverent, powerful protest

The ‘language of apartheid’ can be traced beyond just the Dutch settlers

Experience the soul-stirring melodies of Thandiswa Mazwai's new album 'Sankofa', a captivating journey through South African music and culture

Tina's classic song river deep, mountain high

The sour legacy of the $10-million the South African Football Association (SAFA) allegedly paid to seal the award of the 2010 FIFA World Cup continues to haunt the association, its president Danny...

Testing time for pro-peace youngsters who are declining to serve in the army

Two subversive South African radio stations had their roots firmly in Johannesburg soil. The banned ANC understood that to overthrow the powerful apartheid state, they needed more than blow up pylons...

Charles Leonard has picked 28 of his favourite songs from our continent. Be ready to be entertained, surprised and hopefully thrilled by his celebratory selecti

Rodriguez was bigger than The Beatles in 1970s apartheid South Africa. In this special tribute to the Mexican-American singer-songwriter who died recently, Charles Leonard explores the politics,...

The academic and activist, who helped build the trade union movement, challenged any form of oppression and exploitation

Jo’burg hasn’t got much to boast about at the moment. But there’s one thing Jo’burgers can be proud of: the city’s jazz. In this episode Charles Leonard speaks to a city musician who’s just released...

This mixtape is so subversive it should come in a brown paper bag. Art and especially music often unsettle reactionary regimes, elites and establishments. For this mixtape Charles Leonard has picked...

Jo’burg has always been a city of migrants. But how welcoming is it these days? Now that the City of Gold has lost a lot of its sheen – has it become insular? And are we treating newer arrivals like...

Happiness mixed with woe was the order of the day as the cultural landmark closed down

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Ahead of the warlord’s funeral today, there have been nauseating attempts to kindly reassess him. Don’t fall for it, says the Guardian’s former South Africa correspondent Chris McGreal

The Zamrock pioneers are back with their first album in nearly four decades — and it’s a cracker

How do you preserve your roots and culture in an alien city? In the season finale of ‘This is Jo’burg’, an Ethiopian refugee/restaurateur, a Zulu migrant/scholar and a young surrealist painter take...

Between 1936 and 1975 an independent radio station subverted young Jo’burgers all the way from Mozambique. LM Radio’s highly effective ad department came for their money, but it was its DJs that took...