In South Africa, the past is in the present, and we must start a serious dialogue on reparative justice if we are to realise racial and social justice and thus urgently begin to resolve the national question. Otherwise, we will see more protests by the so-called born frees and their middle- and upper-class parents to be accommodated and included in (formerly) white spaces. To read the full article online, visit: https://www.news24.com/citypress/voices/tshepo-madlingozi-no-jus

In this episode, Professor Tshepo Madlingozi speaks with Kneo Mokgopa of the Nelson Mandela Foundation about his personal encounters with environmental racism, how Steve Biko anticipated liberation thought and the unexpected role swimming has played in his life.

The new director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) at Wits University will be Dr Tshepo Madlingozi, effective from June this year.

The Khulumani Support Group, a social movement of victims and survivors of gross violations of human rights under apartheid, has decided to intervene, along with a network of civil society organisations, as amicus curiae (friend of the court) in the Constitutional Court case between Robert McBride and The Citizen.

Suspended sentences for apartheid criminals Adriaan Vlok and his co-accused are just not good enough. But then neither was the decision of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to select a privileged “good” and understanding survivor in the form of Rev Frank Chikane as the test case for the NPA’s prosecutions policy, amended without public debate in 2005. Picture Credit: Rowyn Lombard