As South Africa’s first known freelance photographer, Ernest Cole’s life – like those of his fellow Black countrymen – was violently bound by the country’s apartheid laws. Cole’s photography was a ...

After the Taliban took over in Afghanistan in 2021, four women — parliamentarians, ministers and journalists — were stripped of their positions of power. Resettling in Canada, the documentary An ...

Gordon Main’s apartheid-era documentary “London Recruits” has been tapped as the opening film at the sixth Joburg Film Festival, which takes place Feb. 27 – March 3 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The ...

The debate surrounding the name of South Africa's iconic wildlife park.

Daniel Manulak is a historian of Canada and southern Africa and a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Canada Program. On campuses across Canada and ...

Three months after becoming prime minister in 1984, Brian Mulroney hosted Desmond Tutu, the bishop of Johannesburg and a powerful South African anti-apartheid leader, in his office in Ottawa. That ...