Norbert Ndjeka was born on World TB Day. Decades later, he would reshape how South Africa treats the deadliest forms of the disease

For decades, the island was a towering emblem of punishment—first for enslaved labourers and lepers under colonial rule and later for the anti-apartheid resisters who dared to defy a brutal system

This is an edited version of former co-editor Irwin Manoim’s speech delivered at a reunion of those who were there when the Weekly Mail, now the Mail & Guardian, was founded 40 years ago on 14 June

When a unity government was being formed in the 1990s there was suspicion and mistrust

The EFF leader changes his views faster than a Nigerian man running in flip-flops

The door-to-doors have door-to-doored and now it’s all over – except for the voting

Ten days before the first democratic election the extraordinary occurred when the leader of the liberation movement and that of the apartheid National Party sat down to talk

The change of street and place names rouses the country’s attention unlike anything else and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon