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School mathematics in South Africa is often seen as a sign of the health of the education system more generally. Under the racial laws of apartheid, until 1994, African people were severely restricted from learning maths. Tracking the changes in maths performance is a measure of how far the country…

The South African writer, who has died aged 92, was grateful for his extraordinary life and wrote out of love rather than anger

The billionaire and now Trump adviser grew up amid the collapse of white rule, attending an all-white school and then a more liberal one

Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The Blood Knot” and “'Master Harold’

South African sculptor and painter James Delaney wants to encourage people in Johannesburg to engage with parks through public art

The actor recalls her interactions with one of South Africa’s greatest playwrights

South African playwright whose work dealt with the injustices and absurdities of the apartheid era

A giant of political drama, Fugard captured the injustices of apartheid in works such as Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island

Raoul Peck offers a lyrical documentary portrait of the late South African photographer who dared to show his country’s racist regime to the world

About 80% of South Africa’s electricity still comes from burning coal. The country’s 108 coal mines have resulted in many communities being forced off their land from the 1970s to date. They have not only lost their homes and land, but have suffered the trauma of their ancestral graves being…

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