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President Cyril Ramaphosa should consider the weak response of Jan Smuts in the face of the power of the Broederbond – and ensure he does not repeat it.

History shows social discontent is always present — and eruptions of it will break through with unpredictable effects. Americans must now confront their own moment of such things as they steel themselves for a midterm election on 8 November.

I was preparing a Marikana anniversary event at UJ when I had one of those moments when you say to yourself: ‘Why didn’t I think of that before?’

In 1922, Johannesburg’s white workers united on a scale not seen before or since, unleashing violence against Black miners and destroying their potential to become an organised force.

The man who found the graves of Enoch Sontonga and a host of other famous people has now set about proving what a young boy claimed he saw in the Braamfontein Cemetery 100 years ago.

Divine Bakery in Fordsburg sells heavenly biscuits garnished with Johannesburg history.

This year marks 100 years since the 1922 miners' strike in Johannesburg. Peter Volmink writes that the ghosts of 1922 are still with us as a century later, and almost three decades into democracy, solidarity between the black poor and the white poor seem as elusive as ever.



We spend many waking hours preparing for work, at work, or recovering from work, and many of us live in societies that, in the words of scholar Kathi Weeks, “expect people to work for wages.” In The transatlantic slave trade in the 1500s–1800s bound up capitalism with colonialism and racism. Slavery was progressively abolished starting in the late eighteenth century in Haiti and continued through the nineteenth century, but this did not bring an end to racial hierarchies or the entanglem...